Apps lens should show recently-installed applications
Bug #708976 reported by
Mark Shuttleworth
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #761851: Software Centre - automatically add app icon to launcher.
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In order to facilitate users finding, launching and dragging to the launcher apps which they have just installed, the apps place should have a section for "Recently Installed" applications. By default, that section should only be one row deep. It should show apps sorted in reverse order of installation, i.e. the latest app to be installed should be the first icon in the row. On expansion, it should show up to 30 apps.
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
summary: |
- Apps place should show recently-installed applications + Apps lens should show recently-installed applications |
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We can do this without too much fuzz if it's acceptable that it only works if you install the app while Unity is running (or specifically the unity-place- applications daemon). That is - the "easy" fix wont work if you install from a pure TTY session or classic gnome session. This "easy" solution can be implemented purely inside the unity-place- applications daemon.
The slightly cooler, more elaborate, and always-working solution would be to have an apt/dpkg/whatever hook that sends an event to Zeitgeist whenever you install a package that contains one or more desktop files.