... And that leaves recommendations. If "Recommended For You" recommended things that you already had installed, I think people would consider it a bit silly. The recommendations spec already said that it shouldn't show installed items on the home screen, but I've now clarified it to say it shouldn't show installed things on the standalone screen either. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Recommendations?action=diff&rev2=15&rev1=13>
As for making a "specification gap" document, the big risk there is that it would get out of sync with the main specification. What I do in other projects, and what I've just done here, is to include a parenthesis after the relevant sentence(s) of the specification linking to the bug report. If you do that, it's easy for a tester reading the spec to see that a discrepancy is known. And when the bug gets fixed, anyone can remove the parenthesis at their leisure. ** Description changed: Ubuntu 12.04, USC 5.2.2.2 I've installed an app which was in “What's new” category. Later on, after restarting USC, I noticed the app I installed disappeared from “What's new” list. I was confused because I wanted to review the app. Well, I thought, probably there was a problem with the app and it was removed from USC. Tough luck. After few days I've installed another app from “What's new” list and again noticed the app is no longer there after restarting USC. This time I thought it can't be some coincidence. I've tested a little more and it looks like a bug in USC. The problem also affects apps listed in “Best rated” and “Recommended” categories. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#whats-new>: "On the home screen, the “What’s New” area should ... [be] excluding items that you have already installed. ... A separate “What’s New” screen ... [should list applications] regardless of whether they are installed." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#top-rated>: "On the home screen, the “Top Rated” area should ... [list items] regardless of whether they are installed ... A separate “Top Rated” screen ... [should also list items] regardless of whether they are installed." + + <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Recommendations#Displaying>: + "The full set of recommendations should be, out of all software not + currently installed, either the strongest 60 recommendations or all + those with a confidence value of X or higher — whichever is fewer." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009967 Title: Installed programs disappear from “What's new” and “Best rated” sections after restarting USC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1009967/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
