{"id":2805,"date":"2012-02-24T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:43:27","slug":"make-it-possibledefault-to-fill-the-launcher-with-most-frequently-used-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2012\/02\/24\/make-it-possibledefault-to-fill-the-launcher-with-most-frequently-used-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it possible|default to automatically fill the launcher with most frequently used apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had the brightest idea. Two actually:
\n1. Make the launcher fill itself automatically with the most frequently used apps.
\n2. Make the launcher infinite in size so that you could (theoretically, should you want to) scroll down to every app you’ve ever launched that the infrastructure knows of.<\/p>\n

==Severity==
\nI’ll elaborate on the justification below based on my use case. Depending on whether it’s a common or a less common one, this report is to be read as severity ’wishlist’ for a system default or an optional feature (an add-on or whatever they’re called in Unity-land).<\/p>\n

==Justification==
\nThe way I currently seem to be intuitively using the launcher, manually, is to stack it with apps I use most, with the most used one on top and less used ones descending according to use-frequency down from there.<\/p>\n

This is at least an implicit, sometimes explicit [1] use case for the launcher, and something at which computers are by nature better than humans. So why not make the launcher do this automatically?<\/p>\n

* [1]\u00a0https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/MaverickMeerkat\/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_Netbook_Edition<\/a><\/p>\n

==Requirements==
\nSometime in the past (see\u00a0Bug #893214<\/a>), the dash seems to have had a ’most frequently used apps’ category, apparently based on Zeitgeist. So the basic infrastructure for this should already exist.<\/p>\n

==Affected==
\nI’m filing this against unity-2d-shell, since that’s what I’m using, but I suppose this applies to 3D as well. Ayatana might be the abstract-level target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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