414892 - Should null/empty string searches yield top-level, category-specific results?

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I can think of a semi edge-case where someone searches with the default
(i.e. null) search string, with either the all-inclusive "all add-ons"
categories filter, or any of the others, and expects to see, respectively:

a) all add-ons listed, or at least a message telling them to choose a category
(we should just run the flat category search for them here, methinks), -or-

b) ditto for each individual category; we should either just do a flat
search/listing on the category, or message them to choose a category.

I think we should trigger these messages only for the cases in which the user
hasn't entered any text; I've seen my dad ignore category/navigational content on left-placed panels, and instead use the <select> widget's categories as the "category-chooser," as it were. 

Madhava, thoughts about the above?

Comment 1

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Resolved - I like what we do right now.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified wfm too.