Re: How to better manage 10 radio buttons on the ALL window

[Florian Pelz <pelzflorian googlemail com>]

Hello,

On 02/28/2015 04:30 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> Each ALL window has 10 radio buttons where each page refers to 24
> applications. When I want to browse the icons for a program whose
> name I forgot, I type the first letter in the search box hoping I
> am right.
>
> To help and to improve gnome ALL window presentation, "please",
> "please", "please" replace the radio button with a button able to
> support two or three characters. On each button, indicate the
> beginning characters of the icon name that appears on the top left
>  corner. Currently, I proceed to radio button 5, and check if I
> have to go towards button one, or towards button 10. With the two
> or three letters in place of the radio button, I could proceed to
> directly to button 3.
>
> After a few hours of Gnome use, my forefinger muscle is in pain
> from performing left mouse clicks. A second request is to try to
> provide "Taskbar" as a permanent feature. With it, I avoid two
> extra mouse clicks and a painful right hand forefinger muscle /
> ligament. Gnome, in part,  is contributing to carpal pain with it's
> "click-click-click" design.
>
> Regards Leslie

First of all, may I suggest enabling the applications menu extension
[1]? It is a part of the gnome-shell-extensions package and can be
enabled with the GNOME Tweak Tool if you have installed the tweak tool
and the gnome-shell-extensions.

As a GNOME user (not developer), I do agree that looking for an
application whose name one has forgotten can become tedious when many
applications are installed. I am not sure how much your suggestion
would improve the situation though. Categories would probably be the
better solution IMO, and that is what the applications menu extension
offers. Maybe you want to file a bug on GNOME Bugzilla [2]?

Greetings,
Florian

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/