[design] [Launcher] Make it easier to remove an item from launcher

[Vesa Rautiainen]

User testing revealed that users expected that icon could be removed from the launcher by longpressing an item and dragging it out of the launcher.

One option would be having a trash bin appearing at the bottom of the Launcher (in the place normally occupied by the BFB) when a user drags and app icon off he launcher (or enters an edit mode to organize icons). The problem with this is that because user can also relocate an item in this mode dragging an item down to a trash bin causes item to go through all different dropping positions in the actual launcher as well.

Therefore one possible option would be placing the thrash bin outside the launcher next to the item in question.

[Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson)]

not an rtm blocker

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

unity8 waiting for design -> Incomplete

[Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)]

Thrash bin is a bit problematic since it also closes the application (at least in unity7) if it's running. Then again if the drag to bin functionality is used only for removing favourite status of an app (unlocking from launcher) it is quite unintuitive that a currently running app is not entirely removed from the launcher when dragged over to the bin (because its instance is still running we need to have an icon in the launcher according to the current design).

My conclusion is that the current design is the best for now considering the world of convergence we're entering and therefore I'm closing this bug for now.