Yes, completely agree that we should do this for empty search results. I'll
make sure it's on the requirements when I do designs for search results
pages (I'm only just back from a week away so won't know when that'll be
until after I've caught up with Yolanda).

Cheers,

Mike


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Alejandro J. Cura <
alejandro.c...@canonical.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Martin Albisetti
> <martin.albise...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to propose we add to empty search results the possibility for
> > the server to return "related apps".
> >
> > We can change over time what the server uses to calculate what to
> > return, we just need to agree what the changes to the API would be,
> > and make sure the server and the client can represent this.
> >
> > On the server side, Fabian is ready and eager to work on this.
> >
> > Who can pick up the scope side of things, help define the API and make
> > this change?
>
> o/
> We discussed something like this during the scopes sprint, and the
> simplest way seems to be a new optional field, added to each result
> item, that specifies if the result is part of the main set of results,
> or is part of the "related apps".
> It could be something like "related: true", or "category: related".
> Would that be enough?
>
> Mike: do we want to specify some other text for that group of results?
> I'd love to see some design for this.
>
> cheers,
> --
> alecu
>
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