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Also show application names with actions

Open danirabbit opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Right now if we search for a common action we get:

Screenshot from 2019-09-12 17 45 40@2x

If we were to use the action icons it would be impossible to tell which app we're executing the action in. We should probably do something like "Compose a Message in Mail"

Not sure if "with" or "in" is a better word here

Either that or something like:

[ICON] Mail → [ ICON ] Compose a Message

danirabbit avatar Sep 13 '19 00:09 danirabbit

I prefer the arrow notation because it gets us the opportunity to use the app icon and the action icon if one is set, and is less likely to sounds awkward imho.

cassidyjames avatar Sep 13 '19 15:09 cassidyjames

This could also make these more discoverable; i.e. I don't usually think "compose message" but I might think "mail", so exposing these by their app name would be beneficial. Same for Screenshot actions in https://github.com/elementary/screenshot/pull/196

cassidyjames avatar Dec 23 '20 07:12 cassidyjames

[ICON] Mail → [ ICON ] Compose a Message is reminiscent of Unity... Having actions like this exposed offers a lot of possibilities even for third parties to offer more usability.

if there is plan in the future on this i would happily help.

teamcons avatar Dec 17 '23 15:12 teamcons

@team-cons if you're interested in working on this feel free to submit a branch. This issue report is the plan 😉

danirabbit avatar Dec 18 '23 18:12 danirabbit