[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.
Seems reasonable.
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.
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. > >
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.
Yeah, that might make sense. It would remove a bit of code complexity, too.
Moved to >>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510394 Closing.