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I'm off to read more stuff I don't understand lol! Laters!

<-numbskull noob enthusiast needs to shut up and learn...

The stack doesn't use any LSO's?

I put that "Lenses from Icons" on brainstorm and blueprints. I just think it's going to get tedious to cycle through multiple lenses or memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts if the Dash is going to work.

Ubuntu has accessibility software that uses the webcam instead of a mouse...

If that's how 11.04 worked I think I might like it.

I never used 11.04 so, in it right clicking firefox would bring up a firefox lens? Right clicking the home folder icon would bring up the files lens? Right clicking libre-office would also bring up a file lens?

I'm barely computer literate sorry.

I guess it's a horrible notion if it can't even be explained. A friend of mine was complaining about how hard it is now to post bookmarks to the desktop, I thought if the FF icon opened a dash lens full of bookmarks and such it would be easier and he nearly kissed me.

I'm just confused because the example thrown back at me is a single icon that basically is a general application lens. I'm not talking about any additional icons, I'm talking about lenses opening opening from the existing icons pertaining specifically to that app.

Not that I don't appreciate your passion.

I guess more options for other users shouldn't be considered?

Which is fine when you only have a few lenses.

or press super+F

Then you would open the dash and tab over a few times which is no big deal, but I figure it would flow better if you just right clicked on Office to bring up that lens directly.

Or right-clicking Office to show a dash or lens or dash lens that shows documents and options to open office on that document instead of having to navigate through nautilus to find the document then tell it to open through Libre-office.

I mean along the lines of right-clicking the Firefox icon opens a Dash specific to FF with bookmarks, installed add-ons, recommended add-ons, open in safe mode, remove from launcher etc... Instead of people having to place bookmarks on the desktop or opening firefox to go to them the could initiate a firefox dash lens through FF and open FF to the bookmarked page.

I hated that thing too.

Nope. That's too general.

The Unity Launcher...yes. With an Ask Ubuntu icon.

What you showed me was just a context menu though.

Specific to that app.

A lens initiated by the apps icon.

Not just files affiliated with said app, but add-ons and etc... like the Dash now but program specific to the icon it's launched from.

Thats what I would call a context menu. Not a Dash.

I'm combining them.

There is.

If there was an ask ubuntu app yes.

I don't see why this is confusing. We all know what the Dash is right? And we now what the Unity Launcher is right. And we know what icons are. I'm proposing a programs icon launches a Dash specific to that icon's app.

A quick list with app specific options that pops out like the dash. So the Dash now is general, but each icon in the Unity Launcher has it's own dash specific to it.

Lenses mean you have to either have a million dashboard shortcuts or tab a million times through all the lenses. A firefox Dash/Lense would be easiest to open through the FF icon instead of tabbing to it in the Dash.

The Libre-office icon could right-click to a dash that contained not only documents and add-ons but wizards and projects as well.

The home folder would have a Nautilus dash that lists files, folders, extensions, functions etc...

Like Firefox having a Dash on right-click instead of a context menu with only four options. FF's Dash would have the four context options, but since it would be a Dash it would also have Bookmarks, add-ons etc... to access before opening FF and maybe even lists of files and documents that can be opened with FF.

I'm trying to get feedback on the notion that maybe icons in the Unity Launcher should have their own Dashes.

No widget layer in ccsm on 11.10.

Compiz used to have a widget-layer...cairo-dock can have docks put onto the desktop like widgets, and you can add them to the widget layer. I'm going to ccsm now...

Does anyone have problems with Flash videos in full screen mode. Mine's especially bad through Hulu, but only on one machine with Nvidia graphics.

Just going to sit back and try to learn something

Thanks!

So change my Ask account to my yahoo address since that is what google prolly has as my primary. Got ya.

@Marco - sorry, I just read your response. Will do tomorrow.

Alright, now it says wait up to 24 hours. Does it make a difference that I sign into Ask through google?

Checking....

Thats ok.

I'm pretty sure I used google to sign into both...I'll double check though.

No big deal really. Just that pink's not my color.

Been two days...

I have an "Ask Ubuntu" profile question. I keep trying to change my profile pic, so I created an account at that gravatar place and uploaded the pic. When I click on "change picture" in Ask's profile it takes me to the gravatar home page. Then what?

So, only use sudo if you want the resulting changes to be owned by "root". Like changes in the filesystem...gotcha. I've had a bad habit develop there.