Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:15:11 +0330



      Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on
      Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:57:10 +0100:
    On
      02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote:
      

      <....>

      That said, my gut feeling is that the balance between simplicity
      and functionality is quite different for a "novice user" and a
      developer and that this needs to be handled with different modes,
      views or so (if gnome-software should handle it). Adding things
      like random CLI applications, -devel packages etc. to the search
      result for a  novice user is just not an option, agreed. But IMHO
      a developer probably needs it in some form.
      

    Search results can be presented in groups (same as groups already
    used in the main screen): Sound/Graphics/Fonts/Development
    Libraries/etc...

    
    Usually, when a user search for some terms, he already know its
    category. In fact, I think grouping search results is useful even in
    the current state without any CLI tools or development libraries. It
    needs a good UI design though. Maybe search results can be 'tagged'
    with their category, and a list of categories (of the results) is
    presented somewhere at the top/side so that the user can select one
    or some tags so that only packages from those categories will be
    shown. Or, the UI might ask the user (ouch, frowned upon!) some
    questions (if results were scattered in many categories) so that it
    can fine tune the results.

    
    Thanks,

    Hedayat

    
      Cheers!
      

      --alec
      

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