Unity should suggest apps to the user according to his hardware

[Mohamed IKBEL Boulabiar]

A nice feature for unity may be the ability to suggest applications to the user.
A common case is when the user connect a specific hardware to the system.

Scenarios:
1. A user connect a webcam : Suggest using cheese
2. A user connect a digitizer : Suggest using Gimp/Inkscape and may open a tutorial of how modifying parameters or using the hardware there.
3. If unity detects a multitouch device, an icon is added (or an existant one animates or blinks) and when clicked/hovered it opens the Software center with applications suggestion.

This feature needs to detect the user hardware capabilities and suggest according to that.
It needs also to resolve this Software Center bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/674633

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Thanks for your bug report and help to make ubuntu better.

However, I think this kind of suggest shouldn't be filed against unity (as it won't even be unity which will do the suggestion but more plumbing on the nautilus/gio interface). So I will mark it as invalid and really encourage you to raise the point on the ayatana mailing list to discuss all the use cases and how to present that to the other. It will make the discussion more interesting and interactive I guess :)

Thanks again for proposing this idea.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Let's leave this one open for now. I think it might find a home with the
indicators or other unity features, or possibly the launcher.

 status confirmed
 importance low

Mark

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!