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Whether you like the ad-supported model or not, this is just bad UI! Who searches their programs and wants to see matching books and music? I could understand

by comice 14y ago

Whether you like the ad-supported model or not, this is just bad UI! Who searches their programs and wants to see matching books and music? I could understand listing other software for sale, but this is daft. I doubt they'll get anything but complaints about this and it'll go away.

CrazedGeek 14y ago
The whole Unity search thing is based around searching -everything-, not just programs, in a manner akin to Spotlight or Android's search. This isn't a radical shift on the UI end.
vidarh 14y ago
You're not by default searching just programs when you search via Unity in the first place. The default for me is a combined pane that shows recent apps, recent files and downloads. If I start typing a search term, whichever categories has matches show up. If I want a specific category, such as just applications, I can select that. Maybe they'll change the defaults, or ask question during install, but I suspect most of the people who might care will easily figure out how to remove/disable it. (Frankly Unity is the most productive UI I've had since my Amiga days. I was planning on installing a tiling WM before I tried it, but then I ended up staying with Unity because it was such a smooth experience, even with far less tweaking than what I'm used to have to do. My most frequently used apps are all just one key combination away. Everything else one key + search. I run most stuff full screen, but with the global menu enabled in most apps, most apps waste very little space even when I "just" have them fill all the available space. It's the closest approximation Amiga-style screens using workspaces I've experienced on Linux. The only thing I hate is the loss of spatial file browsing)
lurker14 14y ago
Eh, Google is forcing this experience on Android users with their batallion of Play apps (Apps, Magazines, Books, Videos, Toilet Paper, etc) and people seem to tolerate it.

by comice 14y ago

CrazedGeek 14y ago

The whole Unity search thing is based around searching -everything-, not just programs, in a manner akin to Spotlight or Android's search. This isn't a radical shift on the UI end.

vidarh 14y ago

You're not by default searching just programs when you search via Unity in the first place. The default for me is a combined pane that shows recent apps, recent files and downloads. If I start typing a search term, whichever categories has matches show up. If I want a specific category, such as just applications, I can select that. Maybe they'll change the defaults, or ask question during install, but I suspect most of the people who might care will easily figure out how to remove/disable it. (Frankly Unity is the most productive UI I've had since my Amiga days. I was planning on installing a tiling WM before I tried it, but then I ended up staying with Unity because it was such a smooth experience, even with far less tweaking than what I'm used to have to do. My most frequently used apps are all just one key combination away. Everything else one key + search. I run most stuff full screen, but with the global menu enabled in most apps, most apps waste very little space even when I "just" have them fill all the available space. It's the closest approximation Amiga-style screens using workspaces I've experienced on Linux. The only thing I hate is the loss of spatial file browsing)

lurker14 14y ago

Eh, Google is forcing this experience on Android users with their batallion of Play apps (Apps, Magazines, Books, Videos, Toilet Paper, etc) and people seem to tolerate it.