[ubuntu-uk] Unity is not working.

[Jim Price]

On 22/02/12 16:05, Alan Bell wrote:

> it is mostly not as hard as you might expect. I did some messing with
> the apps lens having never seen Vala code before and I got it doing what
> I wanted and sorting the applications into categories as per the gnome
> menu: http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png

Now that's an improvement! What it needs is a user customisable 
favourites section at the top, and little triangles to fold the other 
categories to save space and I'd use it.

> I do want to rewrite this as a supplimentary lens that can sit alongside
> the main apps lens without conflicting with it so I will start again in
> python, but it was only just an hour or two to rip out the "recently
> used" and "stuff you don't have" categories and put in the familiar ones.

Is there any chance you could do a quick writeup of what you did, as I 
think that would be very useful for those of us who want to customise 
things, even if it does require some programming.

> I will redo it in python with singlet and document the process
> http://mhall119.com/2012/02/singlet-quickly-better-faster-simpler/

Excellent!

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JimP