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Unity should differentiate between same filename in different parent folder  
Written by a.s. the 25 May 12 at 10:51. New
If I have many customers, each one with one folder "bill", "jim", ... and a subfolder on each named "Sales", when I search for "Sales" in Unity (in main dsh or in files-folder lens) several "Sales" folders appear in the "files and folders" results. I don't know which is the customer (parent folder) it belongs to until I open it... many times the wrong one. Both left-click and right-click do nothing but opening.
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Solution #1: Unity: show full path in files/folders on mouse hover or right-click
Written by a.s. the 25 May 12 at 10:51.
Full path on mouse hover or on right-click will be very nice.
I guess that preferably on hover to reduce the number of clicks.
And, well, once we are showing something on hover, maybe some more properties (full path and date of last modification may be the most useful in my opinion but we might think in showing all the options the nautilus right-click menu does show --and the path!--)

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No app indicator template for Quickly  
Written by lauterzsolti the 23 May 12 at 08:42. New
The Quickly development tool has a few nice templates to start a new graphical or cli app or unity lens project easily (and quickly) but it still doesn't have a template for application indicators.
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Solution #1: Indicator template for Quickly
Written by lauterzsolti the 23 May 12 at 08:42.
It would be great to have a new template for Quickly to create application indicators easier as well.

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Netbooks have small desktop room for files and icons  
Written by dioxholster the 21 May 12 at 02:21. New
Files rested on the desktop can pile up and overtake an entire desktop space, many times being obfuscating the wallpaper and isn't a clean look. This is often the case with netbooks.
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Solution #1: different desktop shortcuts and files spreadout in all workspaces
Written by dioxholster the 21 May 12 at 02:21.
have each workspace have its own desktop shortcuts as placed by the user while File Manager can show all of them in the same folder oblivious to the aforementioned visual setup. For example, a user can prefer to have his downloaded files be sorted into one workspace while the other workspace next to it houses miscellaneous files, and one being completely devoid of icons and files. This way, workspaces can be utilized in secondary non-app way. Other proposals related are wallpaper variances for each workspace.
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Solution #2: allow scrolling of the desktop
Written by Chelloveck314 the 23 May 12 at 15:41.
when the desktop becomes full, have the default setting allow horizontal or vertical scrolling (maybe give the ability for the user to choose which) of the desktop to view more files and icons.

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Improve productivity by showing more  
Written by cslee-ubuntu the 24 May 12 at 11:12. New
When using Ubunto there are a few places that show previews of the windows that ca be selected like the Unity Bar and the Alt Tab switcher.
In a lot of cases applications have tabs with content and it would improve usability to see the content that I am trying to get to.
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Solution #1: Preview of Windows with stacked tab content
Written by cslee-ubuntu the 24 May 12 at 11:12.
For each window that has tabs provide the tabs as a stack of windows.
So in the Unity bar if clicking/hovering over the icon you see all the windows of that application that are open and for each one a stack of tabs.
In Alt Tab as you tab to an application and it splits to show open windows it would show the tabs staked on each window.
Then if using the mouse a user could click the visible part of the tab they want to go there directly.

An enhancement to this would be to roll through the tabs while the window was selected/under the mouse so that the user can see and select the tab they want to go to.


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