Dash: only returns first 5–6 "available to download" results; misleading because many more are in the Software Centre
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu Translations |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen | ||
Unity Foundations |
Invalid
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Medium
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen | ||
unity-lens-applications |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity-place-applications (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1. From the dash, select "media apps" (this some bug applies to "internet applications" well
2. A panel with 3 sections is returned - frequently used, installed, and available for download. If you have many installed, the installed section appropriately give you a way to see the other ones (e.g, a link which says "see 5 more results". However, in the "available for download" section, there is no indication that there are more apps than are shown, and there is no way to get to them. This is wrong because it doesn't accurately reflect the amazing selection of apps that exist, nor can the user get to any other than the 5-6 that are shown.
What should happen?
3. In the "apps available for download" section, there should be an indication of "see 152 more" (or whatever the correct number is) and that should link to an appropriate invocation of the software centre so that you can install them.
Related branches
- Unity Team: Pending requested
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Diff: 115 lines (+49/-2)3 files modifiedapplications.place.in.in (+1/-1)
src/daemon.vala (+47/-1)
src/schemas.vala (+1/-0)
- Neil J. Patel (community): Approve
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Diff: 22 lines (+3/-2)1 file modifiedsrc/PlaceRemote.cpp (+3/-2)
- Unity Team: Pending requested
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Diff: 42 lines (+6/-1)2 files modifiedsrc/daemon.vala (+5/-1)
src/schemas.vala (+1/-0)
summary: |
- dash search results present misleading results and available apps + Dash: only returns first 5–6 "available to download" results; misleading + because many more are in the Software Centre |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | none → 3.8.6 |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
milestone: | none → 0.2.48 |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
milestone: | none → unity-3.8.6 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.8.6 → 3.8.8 |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.8.8 → 3.8.10 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.8.10 → 3.8.12 |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
milestone: | unity-3.8.6 → none |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.8.12 → backlog |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
milestone: | 0.2.48 → none |
milestone: | none → 0.2.48 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | backlog → none |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Invalid → In Progress |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
I agree that this is a problem. Unfortunately it's not as simple as "just appending more apps" to that section.
Some observations:
- Loading a lot of items into the dash can possible degrade the responsiveness of the UI. Especially on low end hardware. For reference there are about 2,4k apps all in all in the software-center index which we use for this
- Users have responded very positively to the purely random selection of apps we present now. It incites serendipity (which would actually slightly degrade would we select semi-random apps sorted by popularity, but I digress).
- Since the apps are random picks there is no way to meaningfully expand that section - as all apps sorted randomly would probably give an even worse impression.