Ubuntu
unity package

Home dash icons need to be customizable

  1. Oneiric (11.10)
  2. Bug #785840
Bug #785840 reported by Kyle Nitzsche
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
Unassigned
OEM Priority Project
Won't Fix
High
Gary Ekker
Oneiric
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
4.0
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity 4.28.0 "SRU2"
unity (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
Oneiric
Won't Fix
Undecided
Olivier Tilloy

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

Customized versions of Ubuntu need to be able to start with a customized set of default icons on the unity home dash. It should be possible to do this without modifying the unity source pkg.

Related branches

lp://staging/~osomon/unity/dash-custom-home-screen
Rejected for merging into lp://staging/unity
Olivier Tilloy: Disapprove
Gord Allott (community): Needs Information
Diff: 387 lines (+254/-59)
4 files modified
plugins/unityshell/src/JSONParser.cpp (+13/-0)
plugins/unityshell/src/JSONParser.h (+4/-0)
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesHomeView.cpp (+233/-59)
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesHomeView.h (+4/-0)
lp://staging/~osomon/unity/4.0-dash-custom-home-screen
Rejected for merging into lp://staging/unity/4.0
Gord Allott (community): Approve
Diff: 72 lines (+28/-4)
1 file modified
plugins/unityshell/src/PlacesHomeView.cpp (+28/-4)
lp://staging/unity/4.0
lp://staging/~ubuntu-desktop/unity/oneiric
Revision history for this message
Herczeg Zsolt (herczegzsolt) wrote :

I think, users also should be allowed to modify those icons.

Revision history for this message
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

The icons are in /usr/share/unity/themes/ .

Changed in unity:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche) wrote :

@ Bilal: My description was not clear enough. I did not mean that icons specifically need to be customizable. Rather I meant that the contents of the home dash needs to be customizable. That is, we need to support customized versions of ubuntu that ship with a customized home dash that allows the user to launch different applications than the default, and this needs to be doable without modifying unity code itself.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)
Changed in unity:
status: Invalid → New
Revision history for this message
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

This is tagged oem-priority. Does this mean OEMs would need it? Marking needs-design anyway

tags: added: needs-design
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche) wrote :

Yes, OEMs need this.

This is a high priority for the Canonical OEM group so that we can create customized Ubuntu versions for OEMs and be able to meet their requirements for using unity and having customized home dash launchers/icons.

Kevin Krafthefer (krafthefer)
Changed in oem-priority:
importance: Undecided → High
Kevin Krafthefer (krafthefer)
Changed in oem-priority:
assignee: nobody → Ekkart (e-leschke)
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
status: Incomplete → In Progress
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → In Progress
Gary Ekker (gekker)
tags: added: qin
Revision history for this message
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 785840] Re: Home dash icons need to be customizable

Actually, I'd like to remove these icons altogether, and have a thin
search box only by default. Can we test that, please?

Mark

Revision history for this message
manny (estelar57) wrote :

>Actually, I'd like to remove these icons altogether, and have a thin
>search box only by default. Can we test that, please?

sorry to ask but how would this work for fullscreen dash?

would this be some kind of "override" for the home-lens?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/884123

Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

So that it doesn't get lost, I've filed Mark's request in comment #6 separately as:

  "Wishlist: Dash with search box only"
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/885821

Steve Magoun (smagoun)
Changed in oem-priority:
assignee: Ekkart (e-leschke) → Gary Ekker (gekker)
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon) → nobody
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
status: New → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
Kevin Krafthefer (krafthefer)
Changed in oem-priority:
status: New → Won't Fix
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