list of applications sorted by alphabet

[Michael Nagel]

there is no (alphabetically sorted) list of all games available through playdeb. i consider this to be one of the most important points when describing the features of playdeb so it should be right in the main menu. a complete, browsable list of all the games.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

What kind of infrastructure/file changes do we need for this? I wouldn't mind dipping my toe into some python!

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

File: applications/playdeb/views/updates.html
  Add some link or other interface element to provide the "Sort by alphabet" function
  Such link would reference something like:
  ${base_url}/updates/Ubuntu/${updates_release}/?alpha=letter
  When alpha is provided the html template must also take care of providing the alphabet based links instead of the page numbers on the navigation section.

File: base/controllers/updates.py
Update the controller code to handle the alpha parameter

File: base/modules/packages.py (* this is the more complex part*)
Extended the get_applications_list function to support the alpha parameter or create a new get_applications_list_alpha, this will require new SQL and related code.