Comment 19 for bug 780776

Shiyam, this particular bug would be quite difficult to fix in Unity 7. Since an application can be launched from anywhere -- the file manager, an indicator menu, a terminal -- I think you would need to monitor the list of running processes, and check whether any of them match up with an application that hasn't had any windows open yet.

This is planned to be fixed by Mir in Unity 8. There is no design specified for it yet, though probably it will be similar to the current feedback for Launcher items. Meanwhile, since you haven't fixed a bug in Ubuntu yet, maybe you'd like to start with something simpler. <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu?field.tag=string-fix>