Comment 1 for bug 754424
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| Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote | #1 |
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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.