| Summary: | Discover should let you change the sort order of app lists | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Discover | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | discover | Assignee: | Aleix Pol <aleixpol> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bugseforuns, elum, jsardid, kde.bugs, kishore96 |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 5.9.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://commits.kde.org/discover/cd998c2e125a3a48c207db96d053b184e7536f1c | Version Fixed In: | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 387805 | ||
| Attachments: | Items ordered seemingly randomly | ||
*** Bug 377390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 362163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The ordering is ratings count. We should have a dropdown menu or something that lets you *at least* toggle between ratings count and alphabetical. Probably, a suggestion on where to put this menu would be welcome. It shouldn't get in the way. (In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #4) > Probably, a suggestion on where to put this menu would be welcome. > It shouldn't get in the way. The top bar in the panel which has the list of apps is mostly empty right now. Maybe you could move the heading up a little bit and put a dropdown just below that. In https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385973, I made a mockup of Discover with a toolbar at the top instead of banners. Such a toolbar would be the perfect place for extra controls like the one proposed here. *** Bug 387805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Migrating ideas from Bug 387805: This idea got a positive reception in the discover-design Telegram room, so I thought I'd promote it to a feature request. When browsing and searching, KDE discover should have additional sort options designed to delight different types of people: 1. Recommended (for people who trust experts) 2. Most popular (current default; for people who believe in the wisdom of crowds) 3. Overlooked gems (high rated but infrequently downloaded; for people who like to discover hidden value) 4. Controversial (ratings are all over the map; for people who like to argue) 5. Alphabetical (for people who want "Just The Facts Ma'am" without any filtering of the data) The last-used view should be remembered across app launches. Discover's Current UX implements rough versions of #1 (on the home screen, in a limited form) and #2 (the browse lists, though the order isn't made clear). With this, we could actually get rid of the Home screen entirely and have Discover open to an app list with a sort order determined by a visible UI control like a dropdown menu or something. should be consistent and contain at least sorting as in in „Get Hot New Stuff” type window (+ascending/descending would be nice) Git commit cd998c2e125a3a48c207db96d053b184e7536f1c by Aleix Pol. Committed on 20/02/2018 at 14:27. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Make it possible to tweak the sorting of a resources list Summary: Now that we have context actions shown, we can consider doing it, will need work for the header. Reviewers: ngraham Subscribers: ngraham, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10589 M +31 -0 discover/qml/ApplicationsListPage.qml https://commits.kde.org/discover/cd998c2e125a3a48c207db96d053b184e7536f1c What about also the upstream release date, so the user can see newly updated applications, plasma add-ons, etc.? Not sure this is possible but would be informative. A good idea. We will track more sort modes in subsequent bugs. This one only tracked adding the feature. We'll track your request in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391668 (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #12) > A good idea. We will track more sort modes in subsequent bugs. This one only > tracked adding the feature. We'll track your request in > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391668 Nice! |
Created attachment 107275 [details] Items ordered seemingly randomly In every context where there is a list of apps (search view, manual browsing, installed list, etc) the list always seems to be ordered randomly. It's not alphabetical. It's not clearly ordered by perceived popularity, either. The order needs to be clearer.