[Bug 475773] Re: Get Software category lists are too long
With more and more games being added I would suggest more subcategories for games, such as Action. Also, on the Website I cannot see the Simulation category. Does the website use a different categorization? If so, why? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475773 Title: Get Software category lists are too long To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/475773/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 475773] Re: Get Software category lists are too long
I have now specified subcategories for Tweaks Themes and Sound Video. They won't be implemented until the Ubuntu archives have debtags (bug 57418). Once they are implemented, I think the remaining tasks to fix this bug will be: - subcategorize, shorten, or replace Accessories - subcategorize, shorten, or replace Education - subcategorize, shorten, or replace Fonts - subcategorize, shorten, or replace Office - subcategorize, shorten, or replace System. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475773 Title: Get Software category lists are too long To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/475773/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 475773] Re: Get Software category lists are too long
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[Bug 475773] Re: Get Software category lists are too long
For 3.0, we have done two things to tackle this problem:
1. As I predicted in my previous comment, we've replaced the two-pane
department screen with a one-pane screen that ends with an All {number} link.
2. In some places, e.g. Science Engineering Mathematics, we've hidden
non-application items by default with a Show {number} technical items link.
What I have not had time to do, though, is any further research on
adding more subsections to reduce the length of the Accessories,
Education, Office, Sound Video, System, or Themes Tweaks
departments. If any usability lab, HCI class, or LoCo would like to help
out with Ubuntu, it would be great if they could take even one of these
departments and run a card-sorting exercise to work out what the
subsections should be.
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[Bug 475773] Re: Get Software category lists are too long
For 2.0, Michael has applied subsections to the “Games” and “Developer Tools” departments, and I’ve applied subsections to the “Graphics”, “Internet”, and “Science Engineering” departments. These alleviate the problem (so I’m downgrading it to Medium), but with three provisos. First, we’re using a two-pane department screen, so the full long list is still there by default when you navigate into a department. (For version 3, we’ll probably replace the second pane with an “All” button/link in the first pane.) Second, some departments — including Sound Video, which you cite — don’t yet have subsections at all. And third, in most of the departments that do have subsections, they’re not comprehensive (especially in Games). The last two problems are related, in that we don’t have enough data to subcategorize those items in a useful way, let alone any mechanism to populate the subcategories if we did. We've been doing an extensive open card-sorting exercise http://usability.gov/design/cardsort.html over the past few weeks to help us determine the overall categorization for 2.0 (and we’ll publish results of that soon), but now someone needs to do intensive card-sorting on individual departments. For example, give someone names, screenshots, and descriptions of 70 games — balanced between those currently available for Ubuntu, and those not — and ask them to put the games in whatever categories make sense to them. Repeat with a dozen more people, and collate the results. If anyone would like to organize that, please let us know. ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: High = Medium ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = later ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) -- Get Software category lists are too long https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
