Comment 5 for bug 955147
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| Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) wrote Re: [FFe, UIFe] Automatically add launchers for newly installed applications | #5 |
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It seems the problem here is that users are unable to find stuff in the dash. If we keep adding more and more icons to the launcher, soon users will be unable to find things there as well.
I think the solution is to subtly train users towards using the dash more. Here's an extremely rough suggestion from a non-designer:
- user installs new app
- dash icon has attention drawn to it (some glow effect, maybe even pulsing)
- when the dash icon is clicked, the dash opens with the search field pre-filled for the newly-installed app so the icon is showing