No visual cue (e.g. scroll overlay) that departments list is scrollable when searching

[Einar Mostad]

When searching in a scope, the list of departments is presented, and some departments are not initially visible, requiring scrolling. However, there is no visual indication that the list may be scrolled.

[dobey (dobey)]

Can you clarify where this is missing? There is definitely a Games department in the store.

[Einar Mostad (einarmostad)]

There is a "Games of the week", but at least in the Norwegian localisation, there is no "Games" category in the search field, which means that if I don't know the name of a game so I can search for it, I won't find it if it is not one of the "Games of the week".

The categories in the Norwegian localisation are "All", "Work", "Books and magazines", "Grafical", "Shopping", "Health", "Health and training", "Communication", "Lifestyle". There are many apps and scopes that I have found coincidentally by searching within "All", but that are not listed in any category. Maybe it is a problem with the localisation?

[dobey (dobey)]

The games department appears to be translated to "Spill" for the "nb" locale.

curl -H 'Accept-Language: nb-NO' https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/departments | jq

[Einar Mostad (einarmostad)]

"Spill" is correct Norwegian for games, but it doesn't show up as a category in the Ubuntu store scope in OTA 11 on my M10. If you look at the screenshot in my above comment it isn't there and that's the problem.

I tried setting the language to English UK and the M10 restarted. I went back into the store and when I hit the search field the categories shown were still in Norwegian. I got the exact same categories as on the screenshot above. I then tried the same with English US and got the same result. Seems like there is something strange with how the localisation is applied to the categories in the search field.

[dobey (dobey)]

I'm sorry, but I don't know Norwegian, and I don't have an M10. The list should be scrollable, so you may need to scroll down to see it.

There was a bug with the departments translations when changing languages, but should be fixed in the next OTA.

[Einar Mostad (einarmostad)]

Thank you! :-) That solves the mystery! It's scrollable. Then the bug should be that there is no visual cue to show that the list is scrollable in stead. I have been trying to search for apps and scopes outside the ones I could see for two weeks now and have been frustrated that I could find more when searching "all" than in the categories. Maybe I am particularly stupid, but I think nobody would scroll unless there is a way to see that the list is scrollable.

If the changing translation bug is fixed in the next OTA, then that is good news too. Thank you! :-)

[dobey (dobey)]

Updated to reflect scrolling visual cue issue, and moved to unity8.