Re: Mockup for design team

[Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com>]

> 
> I would propose another idea: hidding the Dash itself. That is the
> easiest way to prevent showing the same application icon twice. Just
> like you said, if a user opens the application picker, that's because
> the application the user is looking for is not in the Dash. 
> 
> 
> Sure, the presence of the Dash hints at the possibility to drag an
> application icon there. But it is also possible to drag an application
> icon to an workspace, yet the workspaces sidebar is not shown. In my
> opinion, hidding the Dash in the applications view wouldn't hurt, and
> would free some horizontal space.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, the Dash is useful in the [windows] Overview, but is
> distracting elsewhere. That is the reason why it is not shown in the
> normal view, but the same could be said about the application picker
> view (except for acting as a "hint") and also the search results view
> ( where it is out of context, distrating and wasting horizontal space
> that could be used to present more results.)
> 

I've just submitted this as an enhancement request:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655972

Feel free to back it up with your own comments.