On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Albisetti wrote on 21/04/14 20:04: >> ... >> >> Currently, and for a little while until we hit critical mass, >> we'll be lacking apps that people expect their phones to have. We >> will, however, have similar apps that may help bridge the gap. >> >> I'd like to propose we add to empty search results the possibility >> for the server to return "related apps". > > Applications often show up in search results only incidentally, so > whether the search results are empty isn't relevant to whether related > apps should be shown. > > For example, if someone searched for "Spotify", and it wasn't > available, you might want to show streaming music services X, Y, and Z > that are available. Airfoil isn't a streaming music service, but it > happens to mention Spotify in its description. So if Airfoil was > ported to Ubuntu Touch, the search results for "Spotify" would no > longer be empty. But that would not change whether X, Y, and Z should > be included in those results.
Agreed. >> 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? >> >> ... > > Ubuntu Software Center already has this capability (though the > database has never been populated), so it may be worthwhile looking at > its implementation. Yeah, it doesn't look like something we should use. -- Martin -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : ubuntu-appstore-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
