Bug 423292

Summary:	Make fractional star ratings more clear
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	aniche <aniche100>
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, john.liptrot, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.18.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description aniche 2020-06-20 21:03:17 UTC

[Feature Request - is this the right place to post these?]

Discover allows sorting apps by rating, but sometimes several apps have for example between 4 and 5 stars. Would be very handy if Discover could average the score and display to one decimal point eg 3.4, 4.8 etc (? on mouseover) both in the main result list and in each individual app's page. Sort of like Amazon's review scores. Would greatly help to compare scores among different apps.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-06-22 16:26:21 UTC

Seems reasonable.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-06-23 16:00:05 UTC

Hmm, I gave this a try and adding another string makes the display look too busy IMO. What I think we should do instead is display fractional stars visually.

Comment 3 aniche 2020-06-23 20:55:42 UTC

That would help, but might still be difficult to tell between eg 4.4 and 4.6 stars. Could the fractional rating appear upon mouseover of the stars?
Anish

On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:00:05 BST you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423292
> 
> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Summary|[Request] Please display    |Make fractional star
>                    |average user review (e.g    |ratings more clear
>                    |4.3 stars) next to reviews  |
>                    |icon                        |
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> Hmm, I gave this a try and adding another string makes the display look too
> busy IMO. What I think we should do instead is display fractional stars
> visually.
> 
>

Comment 4 john.liptrot 2025-10-06 17:27:40 UTC

Might I even suggest to do away with the stars altogether?

For example, if I open discover and sort 'Education' apps by rating, I find it difficult differentiating between 4.8/5 & 4.9/5 by looking at 4 whole stars plus one-almost-full star. I find myself having to click on the individual apps just to check the decimal rating.

I would rather see - 3.8/5 (41 reviews)   Vs.   ***three-and-four-fifths-of-one-star*** (41 reviews).

The star rating system, in a sense, is more of a middle man that doesn't actually provide accurate information to the user. The decimal rating system is much more accurate, clear & easy to read and is also much easier to compare with other apps in a list.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-10-07 14:43:26 UTC

Yeah, that might make sense. It would remove a bit of code complexity, too.

Comment 6 john.liptrot 2025-10-08 15:30:39 UTC

Moved to >>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510394

Closing.