This was initially proposed to fix some usability issues. But now as we're moving heavily towards convergence we don't want to have two different launcher behaviours. So what is described in this bug report is not according to the new design. So marking this Invalid.
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux Status: In Progress => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368826 Title: [Launcher] [design] Remove the recent apps from the launcher Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: Invalid Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu RTM: Incomplete Bug description: Recent apps live and can be accessed already via right edge. Them appearing in the Launcher is duplication. Also mixing recent apps with favourite ones is a concept that users has difficulties to grasp. Launcher should only contain user's favourite apps, and possibly apps that are asking for attention. Removing recent apps from the launcher means that there is no way to add favourite apps to the launcher any more and we need to do that from somewhere else. App preview page would a quick fix. Longpressing an app icon in dash would be more elegant solution. We could easily add longpress functionality to items in spread to do favoriting. This bug should be fixed together with: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1368831 Proper design is still missing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1368826/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp