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software-center package

Search box behaviour not consistent

Bug #1027818 reported by Michele Kipiel on 2012-07-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #841097: Search bar should appear in all pages (oneiric version). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Matthew Paul Thomas

Bug Description

A search box is a quite important UI element, as a professional UX designer I am puzzled by the behaviour of the search box in the software center: why does it disappear once the user reaches the application detail screen?

According to my experience it would be a good idea to keep the search box always accessible, for at least two reasons:
-the user won't be confused by changing UI
-the user willing to perform a search won't need to click the back arrow to be able to search

I hope this will be a userful idea for the development team.

Revision history for this message

Michele Kipiel (michele-kipiel) wrote on 2012-07-23:

usc_benchmark.pdf Edit (8.7 MiB, application/pdf)

A quick benchmark: search box behaviour in mac app store and google play

Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) on 2012-07-23

affects:	software-center → software-center (Ubuntu)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-08-03:

Michele, USC allows searching within categories and subcategories, whereas the Mac App Store and Google Play (as far as I know) do not. That means it would be unclear what a search from an application screen was applying to. If you can think of a solution to this, please propose it in bug 1018678.