Quite nice idea but I see few problems in it.
The person who reported the bug says that in current implementation it's a hard
to find the item you're looking for. But in current implementation user has a
freedom to organize the launcher items in any order he wants. And by moving for
example all mostly used apps next to ubuntu button at the top user would always
know where to find them.
If we were to add the functionality that items are ordered based on the
frequency in that case the order changes and user might have hard time
to predict where to find the most used items.
Another possible use case can be that user has one particular app he
wants to have an easy and fast access to. For the sake of an example let
say "Call an ambulance app". User uses it very rarely but when he does
he wants to access it fast and wants to be sure where to find it. So he
adds at the top of the launcher to be the first item in the list. Now if
the proposed frequency rule is followed it would gradually move more and
more bottom and user would have no idea where it is at any given time.
Of course it would be possible to make this behaviour optional but we
try not to bloat the system settings with optional component behaviours
but rather have single holistic design to cover all main use cases.
But there is definitely something in this idea and we'll keep it in mind
when improving the launcher experience.
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Status: Triaged => Confirmed
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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[design] Sort Items in Launcher By Frequency Used
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