

For example, it renders in a special way (no margins or header). I'm really hesitant to pursue this because I think the app list has a lot of special rules, and building it into dashboards will create a lot of complexity to accommodate all the special rules without giving us any other benefits. I tend to use the typeahead, grumble that projects appear lastĭo you feel there is value in as a v1, making the apps list part of dashboards (which solves some other outstanding tickets)? Not sure if this is in line with them or not.) ( I think you'd mentioned some more dramatic redesign ideas. By default, we show only a few applications, and pin the "Applications" application at the bottom.Show / don't show probably move into Applications? As "Pin to home" or something. Configuration is just show / don't show, plus drag-to-reorder.The "Applications" application gets updates to be a more user-friendly application directory (3-up on desktops, icons).Not all applications appear on the homepage.The complexity of configuring this stuff gets worse after T4103, where administrators will have to configure applications for new users. The groups are pretty arbitrary and probably won't scale well once we have third-party applications.Particularly for new users, the small tiles are even less useful because they don't know what the applications do yet, and we don't have room to put explanatory text on them.The settings screen is complex, overwhelming, and hard to use.(I use the first few large tiles, and navigate to other applications by typing in URLs or using the "Search" typeahead.).Overall, I'm not sure getting all the apps onto the homepage is very useful, since I very rarely click any of the tiles after the first few.The groups aren't great fits and are all kind of vague, so they don't really help you find things most of the time, especially if you aren't familiar with everything.

(We probably have 50% more applications than we did when we built this element?) We now have so many applications that I find it faster to search for rarely-used apps than find them in navigation.However, I don't think either of these advantages are all that advantageous: Organizing applications into groups (like "Communication") is at least somewhat helpful in finding applications.By rendering most applications with a small tile, we can fit all of the applications on to the homepage without the page being 9,000 pages long.

Just throwing this out there for discussion -Ĭurrently, applications on the homepage either get a large tile (full-width) or a small square tile.
