FWIW, this functionality is covered in Android by using widgets. Users can arrange arbitrary widgets freely in several Android launchers, such as ADWLauncher. Each app can provide multiple widgets for different styles and functions, to make that app's data and operations usable directly from the launcher screens without having to actually launch the app... and the user can easily group or arrange them however they like with a few taps and gestures.
Just as a point of reference for what people may be expecting as baseline functionality. If anyone in design would like a demo, I have a friend in London who loves Ubuntu and would be happy to show how this UI works along with several other useful concepts. I'd also love to see more end-user- configurable scopes. -- 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/1422328 Title: Allow users to create their own aggregator scopes without programming Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: New Status in unity-scope-scopes package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity-scope-scopes package in Ubuntu RTM: New Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu RTM: New Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu RTM: New Bug description: It would be nice if there were an UI to create your own (virtual) aggregator scopes straight from the Unity8 dash without any programming efforts. They would then display data from a few scopes which the user would be able to select from the ones he has installed using a layout the user would be able to define as well. Then there would be a new page in the Unity8 dash which collocates the data in the way the user wanted to. Here's a usage scenario outlining why I think this functionality is important: Let's say you read news from 4 custom news sources regularly for which scopes do exist. Currently, you then need to favorite all of them separately, resulting in the addition of 4 pages to the dash. As a result, you will have to swipe a lot to reach the scopes you want, which is quite annoying. Now imagine you need to do the same for other types of content and you will have a notion of how crowded your dash will become. To keep it short, the user experience will be suboptimal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1422328/+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
