[ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

[Alan Bell]

On 16/03/12 08:24, alan c wrote:
> On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote:
>> But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is
>> the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/
> Are you sure about this? I am not. Most of the friends I help with
> Ubuntu are only interested in the apps they use. These are very non
> geeks. They have no interest whatsoever in all the other stuff, and
> this is most obvious when in a support conversation I state an app and
> its (menu) path in the menu structure. The menu path is an issue for
> them, and is treated with great reverence like some ritual. For
> myself, I  have fairly good knowledge of the content of the menus even
> though I do not use many of the apps.
>
> I believe that in future, all I need to do is tell them to type the
> app name, and then run it. If they want to be independent, what they
> will do is use the dash and then drill down, as I will. I do expect
> that there will be a way to drill down or display all installed apps
> whatever.
>
> I think that  most of the world's population (  =future Ubuntu users)
> will be happy  or even, happier, without menus.
well the problem is that there is zero organisation of the apps, you 
can't drag them around onto different pages like you do on a smartphone 
to put them in an order that makes sense to you, and they are not 
pre-sorted in a way that makes sense to anyone. It just looks like this 
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/dash.jpg which isn't particularly 
helpful if you want to see related applications together. Alphabetical 
sorting of apps is not really a useful sort order for discovering them.

Alan.

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