Comment 3 for bug 761851

I've implemented the basic flow as described in mpt's spec (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#launching) on the Software Center side, and this will be released with the next development release of Software Center in Precise. Specifically, I removed the slide-in panel that offers to add a newly-installed application to the Unity launcher, and instead we simply add the newly installed application to the launcher automatically by default. I've also added the new checkmark menu item "View->New Applications in Launcher”, and this can be used to disable this functionality.

Note that this development implementation still uses the current Unity launcher integration capabilities, and so the icon animation and install progress features as described in items 1 through 5 in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#launching will not yet occur. Rather, the application is added to the launcher at the moment the application install completes, with the launcher item "wiggle" to indicate that it has been added there (essentially, this is item 6 in mpt's specification).

The additional animation and progress display features in the launcher will come when the Unity side work in Bilal's branch lp:~bilalakhtar/unity/software-center-integration-for-o is landed in Unity.

Thanks all!