Default "Favorite Apps"

[Bastien Nocera]

Agreed. Though it might be a bit too late to do that upstream this cycle.

But we can discuss it upstream, and patch downstream for 3.14.

----- Original Message -----
> 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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