Bug 384936

Summary:	Improve discoverability of newly-installed applications
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alexander.lohnau, bugseforuns, kde, niccolo, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.4.0
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Description Nate Graham 2017-09-21 15:50:13 UTC

Right now, newly-installed applications aren't specially highlighted anywhere, making it more challenging than optimal for non-technical users to know how to launch them.

In Ubuntu Unity, newly-installed applications automatically show up on the always-visible Dock. In Windows, they appear highlighted at the top of the Start Menu.

We should consider doing something to highlight or display newly-installed applications more prominently.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2017-09-21 15:57:18 UTC

Kickoff did have code to highlight new items at some point

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-09-21 17:27:46 UTC

(FYI this is a continuation of a conversation started at https://phabricator.kde.org/D7905)

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-09-22 07:39:35 UTC

It used to have a "Recently installed" category until it was rewritten to use Kicker's backend.

Comment 4 Alexander Lohnau 2020-07-13 09:59:10 UTC

Great idea, would be really nice if we could implement this!

Comment 5 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-09-23 12:20:53 UTC

Newly installed applications now make a dot appear on their respective categories, and a badge on the list when you enter those categories. I guess a dedicated category would also be nice, but that's already a good discoverability improvement.