Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

[David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keep it simple, focused, elegant. This should feel light, incisive,
precise, fast.

Search is really powerful, and your data set--installed
applications--is small. Adding category filters belies the search
experience.

Frederik, try listing a small set of use cases describing exactly what
you're proposing. It will help keep this discussion focused and
minimize entropy.

David

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Frederik Nnaji
<frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:27, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I like the mockup, but I think something similar to the attached would
>> be nicer. I visualize the window only appearing when someone starts
>> typing into the box and the results would filter down. When the user
>> clears the box (or presses enter to execute the top entry) the window
>> would disappear.
>>
>> Luke.
>>
> please, stop saying you like the mockup.. it's just a screenshot ;)
> your mockup is what i'm talking about, i think step by step we're
> getting into business with this idea..
>
> now remove the categories, as suggested above in the thread.
> make the dialog, that pops up as you type, smart, i.e:
> it learns what types of things the user tends to search for.
>
> instead of the existing categories, offer "photos", "music", "videos"
> and "applications", if the user continues the dialog. i think we
> should use the word dialog in its literal meaning here, the depth of
> detail in which options and filters are displayed should grow with the
> depth of steps the user is ready to make (all of them of course
> augmented with the principles of incremental search)
>
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