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

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com>*/ 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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