433624 - Label "recommended" extensions in addons manager search results

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051304 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051304 Minefield/3.0pre

it would be great if we can distinguish the "recommended" extensions in the search results of addons manager.   We currently do that on AMO, could we design something like that also that sticks out?   We already have a list of recommended items, how hard would it be to do that?  

People always love when someone recommends something, especially our extension authors.

See screenshot.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install nightly
2. Open addons manager > Get addons
3. Search for an extension that is considered "recommended" by AMO.  (eg. Interclue)
4. Verify search results window dont have a way to call out that extension as "recommended".  
Actual Results:  
No "recommended" label for extensions in search results

Expected Results:  
"Recommended" Label someplace

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Attachment: No Recommended Label screenshot

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This is a good idea I think though right now it is not possible. I have filed bug 433673 to add the necesary information to the API calls.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

That's about the old UI which has been completely replaced. But we still don't call out recommended add-ons for searches.

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

The search is being replaced with AMO in bug 1263313.