Bug 162481

Summary: Don't show favorited apps in recently used apps
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Dalibor Karlović <dado>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: georg.wittenburg, xtremek2008
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dalibor Karlović 2008-05-22 18:08:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Favorite apps are accessible with the Favorite tab but most of them show up in Recently used, why list them twice? In other words, Recently used should actually be Recently used apps not in Favorites. It could be an option, but I don't think it's really needed.
Comment 1 Jesse L. Zamora 2008-11-19 02:55:52 UTC 
The reason we do this is so that you know which items you chose last. I think it's actually quite good to do that, so I'll just mark this won't fix.
Comment 2 Dalibor Karlović 2008-11-19 09:09:40 UTC 
Can you elaborate why you think it's a good idea to have two lists which contain mostly the same entries? In my situation, this makes the MRL list pretty unusable.
Comment 3 Georg Wittenburg 2009-01-03 02:30:48 UTC 
I'd agree with the original reporter. Please reconsider and don't close this bug as WONTFIX.

Rationale: Applications listed in "Recently Used" match those listed in "Favorites" most of the time. Let's consider a user wants to reopen a non-favorite application which he has recently used. Since there is only room for five items in "Recently Used" the user will only be successful if he hasn't used five of his up to eight favorites in between. On the other hand, the favorites in "Recently Used" are worthless to the user because he will start them from "Favorites".

Jesse, your argument essentially states that the information in which order the user has accessed a set of applications recently has some value. I'm sorry, but I'm doubtful about that.

Again, consider the two alternatives:
1) "Recently Used" includes favorites => Default Kickoff provides easy access to eight favorites and an uncertain number of recently used applications depending on how many favorite applications have been used recently.
2) "Recently Used" excludes favorites => Default Kickoff provides easy access to eight favorites and five additional recently used applications.

Please reconsider. And, of course, thanks for your work!
Comment 4 Georg Wittenburg 2010-03-07 09:32:09 UTC 
Hi Jesse,

I am aware that you closed this as WONTFIX. Yet, you have two users who have spent some time on making a point why the alternative behavior might be better. I'd be happy to have my arguments invalidated, but please, do reply.

Thanks!

    Georg