Closed Bug 1060062 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Display only desktop apps in the search results from the About:Apps page

Categories

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P1)

Product:
Marketplace Graveyard
Component:
Consumer Pages
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
2014-09-16

People

(Reporter: cgalimidi, Assigned: mat)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [feature])

User Story

As a user on my desktop computer, when i search for an app or category from the About:Apps tab I only want to see desktop apps in the search results.

As a user on my desktop computer when i search for an app or category from firefox.marketplace.com I want to see results for all platforms.
No description provided.
Implementing bug 969244 will give us that behaviour for free.
Assignee: nobody → mpillard
Depends on: 969244
User Story: (updated)
check the user story - the search results should display exclusively desktop apps ONLY for the results from the about:apps tab. search results on firefox.marketplace.com should show all apps - UX is researching more features for how to filter on desktop and will share research results and recommendation with the team
Flags: needinfo?(mpillard)
Blocks: 1046460
No longer blocks: 1048519
No longer depends on: 969244
Flags: needinfo?(mpillard)
So, a couple questions then: - Search from about:apps will lead to Marketplace search results. Do we indicate to the user that his search results are being filtered ? How ? - What about repeat searches from the search results page ? One solution is to use the special ":desktop" flag when searching from about:apps. It's not something really meant for end-users though, and it will show up as the search query string, as if you'd have searched for ":desktop <something>" - so it can be confusing, but it does show an indication to the user that his search results are being filtered, and it handles new searches from the results page (the user can keep or remove the ":desktop" prefix) Another solution is to do something similar but hide the special flag. However this means we don't indicate the filtering to the user and new searches from this page wouldn't be filtered. What do you think ?
We can let people know the results are filtered by creating a dynamic page title. So... 1. I've come from about:apps. The title says XXX Results Showing 1–25 Desktop Apps 2. I've come from somewhere else on the site. The title says XXX Results Showing 1–25
That works, but while we don't have bug 969244, the user will never be able to reproduce this search (the subsequent searches will be unfiltered) except by going back to the about:apps page to search. If we are OK with this, then I can implement it like that.
Updated requirements today. Changed default views and dropdown values. See here: http://people.mozilla.org/~ehunt/desktop_marketplace/ui_platform_filtering.pdf
Mat, we have to implement as described in comment #4, since about:apps will land before the user-side filter control.
Fixed in 3 parts: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/dbd97240305cc7b4e544bb739b84cb03721f42d3 (*) https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/commit/914a5f4b4ca27ee2ec0bf745681a8c0e67298f56 https://github.com/mozilla/discoplace/commit/8eaf1a528df8ce20a13c4f06e1c4e8c2887bce6e (*) Also https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/2a56f1025fe7ecb7c3c2a1cf22aa3de4ec88bfe3 follow-up commit fixes a regression with Firefox OS devices in the first patch) STR: - See comment 4.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 2014-09-16
Verified as fixed based on comment #4 : http://screencast.com/t/0V1cUQv0
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Depends on: 1069511
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