[Launcher] [design] Remove the recent apps from the launcher

[Vesa Rautiainen]

Recent apps live and can be accessed already via right edge. Them appearing in the Launcher is duplication. Also mixing recent apps with favourite ones is a concept that users has difficulties to grasp.

Launcher should only contain user's favourite apps, and possibly apps that are asking for attention.

Removing recent apps from the launcher means that there is no way to add favourite apps to the launcher any more and we need to do that from somewhere else. App preview page would a quick fix. Longpressing an app icon in dash would be more elegant solution. We could easily add longpress functionality to items in spread to do favoriting.

This bug should be fixed together with:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1368831

Proper design is still missing.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

W dniu 12.09.2014 o 17:26, Vesa Rautiainen pisze:
> when the user focuses an app that is asking for
> attention (via any method) this app should be removed from the launcher.

This seems wrong, shouldn't it stay on the launcher until unfocused?

[Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson)]

this bug needs : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1367822 to also be implemented

[Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson)]

this should be a high bug

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

prefer to use "new" rather than "incomplete" to avoid the autoclose, per saviq wish

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

oops, removing touch-date tag, since still under design

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Will this affect the desktop launcher (and how)?

[Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)]

This was initially proposed to fix some usability issues. But now as we're moving heavily towards convergence we don't want to have two different launcher behaviours. So what is described in this bug report is not according to the new design. So marking this Invalid.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

design says invalid -> unity8 invalid