Default "Favorite Apps"

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 15:13 +0300, Elad Alfassa 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.
> 
> 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 :)
> 
> It's easy for us to change that list since we already patch it in
> Fedora to replace Epiphany with Firefox.

I agree, but why not change these upstream instead?  Epiphany->Firefox
is a change that wouldn't make sense upstream, but the rest would.

I might leave Empathy since it's tied in pretty closely with our
integrated chat.
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