Hello Thomas, some comments that I have after a quickly look at the new software-search part of obs are: - Office: Looking at the apps inside "Office" I believe the word Productivity make sense too, maybe "Office & Productivity" - The name "openSUSE Apps", Humm I don't know another name, but as we have a advance icon that allow users to search apps for other distros like CentOS, RH, ... maybe to have a more general name instead of "openSUSE Apps" makes more sense, openStore, openApps, openShop, I don't know, this is just some suggestion, also having an more general name could bring more users from other projects and distros. My vision is pretty similar with what has happened with openSUSE Build Service that has changed to open Build Service. - maybe Education and Science instead of a Education alone. I'm thinking about some medical and some sientific apps. Where to include it? I don't know, and maybe is not necessary too. - I see xsane as office or productivity or even Tools instead of Multimedia, of course can be inside multimedia too, but I really believe that makes more sense for office or productivity. 2012/3/23 Thomas Schmidt :

Hi all, after reworking the software search part of obs which should be ok now, we focused on creating an app-store for browsing applications by category.

Check out the first version here: http://software.opensuse.org/packages

Please tell me what you think about it and have a nice weekend :-)

Greetings

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Thomas Schmidt wrote:

Hi all, after reworking the software search part of obs which should be ok now, we focused on creating an app-store for browsing applications by category.

When you go into games, only if you scroll all the way down you can filter by game categories. And even then, there are a few categories missing, of which I could mention simulation (ie FlightGear) just OTOMH. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org

On Friday 23 March 2012 17:37:06 Thomas Schmidt wrote:

Hi all, after reworking the software search part of obs which should be ok now, we focused on creating an app-store for browsing applications by category.

Check out the first version here: http://software.opensuse.org/packages

Please tell me what you think about it and have a nice weekend :-)

Greetings

A bit like the chromium webstore, right? I like the first page but the next one is a bit - boring, list-like. Maybe you can do something more like Chromium's store, having screenshots (bigger) with text overlay or something... ?

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 17:37 +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:

Hi all, after reworking the software search part of obs which should be ok now, we focused on creating an app-store for browsing applications by category.

Check out the first version here: http://software.opensuse.org/packages

Please tell me what you think about it and have a nice weekend :-)

Greetings

-- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org)

Doing a walk-through, I found the following observations (considering this is "enduser-focused") I chose Banshee as my test case because it has multiple related packages. 1. Search for banshee Results: Banshee, description, and long list of sub-packages appears. The sub-packages section is confusing on several points: -- I think it would be nicer if this section had its own header to differentiate it from the main package. Otherwise it looks like it is simply part of the main package description, and someone with quick scanning eyes might not catch on. -- Sub-package list is confusing. items are not separated by a comma. items are not each given their own line. -- It is unclear which items are "extra" and which items are already in the main package. For example, there is one called "core." I'm pretty sure this one is part of the main package, so why would it be defined as a sub-package from the enduser's perspective? -- Probably not possible yet, but would be nice if the Appstore could actually tell you in advance whether you have "xyz" installed already. Much like the sweettooth backend on extensions.gnome.org. 2. Clicking on Banshee in search results -- Direct install. Nice. Again, would be nice if the page could tell you whether it is installed or not. But probably not possible right now. -- Click on "Show other versions" also looks pretty good. I clicked on 12.1 for the latest examples. But once I click on 12.1, I see another click for "Show unsupported versions." This becomes cumbersome and somewhat redundant since there is already an entry called "Official Update." I would *think* that most users would already assume any additional listings would be unsupported. But maybe that's just my perception. I find it simply an unnecessary step and should just show it all at once. -- The first thing I notice are two links for each 32-bit, 64-bit and Source. There's no alt-tag to hover the mouse over to explain what these mean. -- Clicking on unsupported versions, I see there is a newer version in GNOME:Apps. The GNOME:Apps is hyperlinked, but the version 2.3.6 is not. Clicking on GNOME:Apps takes you to the project page for Banshee in GNOME:Apps. If it were my choice, I would make 2.3.6 hyperlinked and take you to the project page. I would make GNOME:Apps link to the main GNOME:Apps page because I might be curious to see what other items are in GNOME:Apps. The current method simply doesn't allow the enduser to be curious and explore. These are just my two cents observation walking through the process. Others may disagree with my thoughts, but there it is. :-) Thanks for the great work, guys! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org