Op woensdag 27 oktober 2010 00:52:25 schreef Frank Griffin: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > A solution could be to > > 1. hide everything but the application packages (no matter if GUI or CLI) > > 2. Insert such a list of options but give it an "expert" tag. > > 3. The most important: make a search result visible also if the result > > is something which would be hidden otherwise. > > > > Example: > > gstreamer-plugin-devel (don't care about the name) would be hidden in > > standard view. But if the user writes "gstreamer" into the search > > field it shouold be displayed in the search result view. > > > > This way we could even keep the current order with "programs with gui" > > as default. When the user no searches for 'mc' he will see it in the > > list of search results, although 'mc' would not be displayed in > > "Programs with GUI" view. > > > > Does anybody understand what I wrote? Can't explain it in better words. > > :) > > Excellent point. This mirrors something I suggested in another thread > about rpmdrake and repositories. Show anything, if it's asked for, > whether the source is "disabled" or not.
OTOH for new users, this overwelming choice of programs can be quite overwelming. I would propose to have a bydefault hiding of most of the programs (more or less like now); but when once clicked off, to be remembered for next time. OR when you search and find nothing; to get a display that the view is switched to all; because it couldn't find your package OR have the results in two collapsable regions; where the first one contains the "GUI" packages and the 2nd is collapsed by default (when the first one is empty, it's collapsed and the 2nd one is open? I want this to be usefull for new users (while not being unusefull for contributers like myself) my dad, for instance, absolutely loves that by default the GUI packages are listed; because he never uses any console.
