As far as i understand this was part of the "scopes as apps" effort that is now dead.
** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => 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/1370075 Title: [design] [Switcher] Non-favourite scopes should appear in the apps stack Status in Ubuntu UX: Fix Committed Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Currently app switcher (accessed via long right edge swipe) shows the Dash and all recent applications. The Dash contains favourite scopes. The current design proposal is that an individually opened scope opens as a separate application in its own instance if it's not one of the favourite scopes. Within the scope there can be a navigation similarly as apps have but there is no header back navigation back to dash. Even if it was launched from there. So these non-favourite scope are self contained items behaving like any app. Because of their app-like nature we want to add non-favourite scope to the spread view and treat them there as any applications. They follow same recency order positioning, they can be closed and navigated to. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1370075/+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