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Install Lenses and Scopes in Ubuntu 12.04 [Wikipedia, Flickr, Grooveshark, Spotify and More]

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http://www.ubuntuvibes.com – Most of the Unity Lenses and scopes, that adds extra functionality to dash menu have been updated to work with Ubuntu 12.04. Some lenses like Wikipedia lens are new releases. A Lens adds an extra new category to Unity dash allowing you to find specific results from local sources, web and even do calculations. A Scope adds a new source to an existing lens. For example, you can add Flickr scope as an extra source in Photo Lens. In simple words, you need a Lens to look into specific data sources called scopes. To install these Lenses and Scopes, you will ne (HowTos)

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Submitted by Tasshin on 04/28/2012 – Made popular on 04/28/2012

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It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics. 

The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’.

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And then downloading and executing a deb package found here. Flickr scope works fine. However, the Shotwell scope is not working and has caused errors in my system.

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This simple tutorial will explain how to install Clementine and Rhythmbox scopes for Unity music lens.

In Ubuntu 11.10 I used a unity-lens called graphicdesign from

ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa

I installed it on both 11.10 and 12.04 with:

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BUT in 12.04, trying to install it like I did, I find the following packages that were included are missing - no installat

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Application lenses seem to be ordered alphabetically by default:

From left to right: dash home --> applications - extras-unity-lens-wikipedia - files - music - recoll - video

Is there any way you can change this order? Perhaps by modifying the .lens files in /usr/share/unity/lenses?

I'd rather hear from someone who has done this already before messing around on my own.