Comment 7 for bug 955147

To answer Martin's question, "Asked for by whom?":

Finding the application you just installed was the #1 problem identified in usability testing of Ubuntu Software Center 2.0. <http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/when-new-users-first-encounter-ubuntu-5-show-stoppers/>

So we added a "Find it in the menu:" hint, describing the path to find it in the Applications menu. But usability testing of Ubuntu Software Center 3.0 found that that didn't work <http://blog.freecalum.co.uk/post/2636771973/usability-testing>, and it would have been obsolete with Unity anyway.

So I specified that newly-installed applications should go into the launcher by default. Mark Shuttleworth directed that we should instead invite you inside USC, for each application you install, to add that application to the launcher (bug 670403). So we implemented that for 4.0, but usability testing of Ubuntu Software Center 5.0 found that that didn't work either. <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/user-testing-of-unity-reveals-some-surprising-results/>

That's why we're going ahead with the launcher integration. It isn't a "workaround to the Dash", because exactly the same problem existed in Ubuntu 10.04 before Unity even existed. So while I'd also be pleased to see the Dash show newly-installed applications in the same list as recently-used applications, pulse when something new is installed, and so on, I'm under no illusions that any of that would solve the discoverability problem. Finally, I recognize the behavior may be annoying for people who install lots of applications at once, but they can turn off the automatic addition from USC ("View" > "New Applications in Launcher").