827613 - Show filter options for desktop search

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

desktop search doesn't allow users to filter the search results in any way.

We should allow users to filter search results by paid,free etc

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

WIP commit: https://github.com/cvan/zamboni/commit/1541459

Comment 2

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

http://people.mozilla.org/~cwiemeersch/mkt-mocks/desktop/Marketplace-(Desktop)-i01-Search_Music_v2_mm.jpg

The mocks show "Free" - but it's not clear how a user would go from "Free" only results to "Free & Paid" results? In other words, what should be the price options? Free & Paid, Free, Paid?

Comment 3

[Maria Sandberg [:mushi]]

This is part of an old mockup that got a little confused. I believe we settled on not doing filtering by price right now since we don't have payments just yet. 

The options should be "popularity" / "relevancy". Maureen, can you confirm?

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Maria Sandberg [:mushi] from comment #3)
> This is part of an old mockup that got a little confused. I believe we
> settled on not doing filtering by price right now since we don't have
> payments just yet. 

But we do, and that'll be completely wrapped up next week supposedly. We're already prepared for submission and listing of Paid apps in the Marketplace.

> The options should be "popularity" / "relevancy". Maureen, can you confirm?

Comment 5

[Maria Sandberg [:mushi]]

Wait, I thought this bug was for desktop - where we don't have paid apps / payments?

Comment 6

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Maria Sandberg [:mushi] from comment #5)
> Wait, I thought this bug was for desktop - where we don't have paid apps /
> payments?

On desktop, we still list paid apps for Firefox OS. Just like we still list on Desktop apps that work on Firefox OS, Firefox for Android, etc. The work Maureen's done for Send to Phone will improve the browse -> installation flow in these cases. But yeah.

Comment 7

[Maureen Hanratty]

Thanks for the catch Maria. Yes, it should be "Relevancy | Popularity" see more in this bug thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812271

Implementing "Free | Paid" sorting to desktop is not a really high priority in my opinion--might confuse users since, as Maria pointed out, the customer won't be able to actually execute purchases on the desktop. Would like to wait until the Send to Phone solution is completed. 

A higher priority for me is allowing users to filter between "All | Desktop Only | Phone Only" as implied by this comment we got on the feedback form: 

"I'm not sure how possible this would be, but it would be great to have some way of filtering out 'phone-only apps' (both those that have no support for desktop firefox and those who don't have big-screen media queries). Ideally I'd love to see cross-platform responsive apps being the baseline - this store has a lot of potential in the desktop as well, if it enforces responsiveness."

Comment 8

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

Is there anything actionable here?

Comment 9

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Rob Hudson [:robhudson] from comment #8)
> Is there anything actionable here?

Add "Free | Paid" like we do on mobile.

Add "All | Desktop Only | Phone Only" since we show all devices on desktop.

Comment 10

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

I think the proposal to move to dbuc's unbucketing capability detection system will help solve this.  Desktop marketplace should filter for capability (screen size) by default, or Show all apps, but only those with desktop capability as Installable.

Paid apps should probably be filtered out since we can't purchase (yet) on desktop.  Can we align this with unbucketing?

Comment 11

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Closing this.  Buchets is landing today (I hope) and we can reevaluate actions after that.