Default "Favorite Apps"

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> We have a lot of "favorite" (ie. pinned to the sidebar in the
> overview) apps. The current list is:
>
> Firefox, Evolution, Empathy, Rhytmbox, Shotwell, LibreOffice Writer,
> Nautilus, Documents and Software.

Shotwell might be removed once we figure out the image viewer thread.

> On the live media we also have the installer launcher pinned on that list.
>
> I think this is too much. On small screens (laptops, vms) having  so
> many launchers there causes their icons to be scaled down a lot. I
> understand the idea behind default favorites is "apps we want the user
> to try", but this is just too much. I don't think we should have more
> than 4 apps there.
>
> So, I suggest removing some items from that list, and have a much
> smaller one, what about:
> Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus, Documents, Software (and of course the
> installer when running on Live)
>
> Does this make more sense? If so, I'll submit a patch to make this change :)

This seems reasonable to me, though I would personally have
LibreOffice Writer in the list instead of Documents.  I don't see the
need to list two instances of a filemanager with different names.

josh