/*Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com>*/ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015
14:57:10 +0100:
On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote:
<....>
That said, my gut feeling is that the balance between simplicity and
functionality is quite different for a "novice user" and a developer
and that this needs to be handled with different modes, views or so
(if gnome-software should handle it). Adding things like random CLI
applications, -devel packages etc. to the search result for a novice
user is just not an option, agreed. But IMHO a developer probably
needs it in some form.
Search results can be presented in groups (same as groups already used
in the main screen): Sound/Graphics/Fonts/Development Libraries/etc...
Usually, when a user search for some terms, he already know its
category. In fact, I think grouping search results is useful even in the
current state without any CLI tools or development libraries. It needs a
good UI design though. Maybe search results can be 'tagged' with their
category, and a list of categories (of the results) is presented
somewhere at the top/side so that the user can select one or some tags
so that only packages from those categories will be shown. Or, the UI
might ask the user (ouch, frowned upon!) some questions (if results were
scattered in many categories) so that it can fine tune the results.
Thanks,
Hedayat
Cheers!
--alec
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