Bug 391275 - Kicker backend feature: combined "history/favorites/newly installed" view
Summary: Kicker backend feature: combined "history/favorites/newly installed" view
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-03-02 04:56 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2024-02-21 16:16 UTC (History)
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Description Nate Graham 2018-03-02 04:56:31 UTC
I pitched this idea to Eike privately and got a positive reception, so I figured I'd file a formal feature request.

For the upcoming Kicker backend rewrite project, I'd like to propose a dynamic view that can show favorites, recently used apps and documents, and also newly-installed apps.

It would be primarily a history/recently used view, with the additional feature that Favorited items would always show up at the top of the list, perhaps with a little pin or star badge in the corner.

In addition, every newly-installed app (or at least, those installed using Discover) would also show up in this view, so users can easily find them (which is a big discoverability problem right now). New Apps would likewise receive a badge, or perhaps a different background color--something to distinguish them as newly installed for the first few times they're launched

The idea here is to create a user-friendly view that can show your average user everything they really need 99% of the time:
- Their favorite apps
- The apps and documents they've used recently
- Newly-installed apps
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-03-02 07:59:43 UTC
> Newly-installed apps

+1, we used to have that in Kickoff but went missing when it moved to Kicker's backend
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2018-03-29 15:40:32 UTC
Is this for Kicker (traditional cascading menu) of Kickoff (scrolling pages)?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-03-29 15:47:19 UTC
Both, since they both use the same Kicker backend and just present the same information in different ways.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-06-25 18:35:42 UTC
Fushan, would you be interested in implementing this?