Recommendations on their own screen are differently ordered from the home screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.12, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1
1. On the home screen, scroll down to "Recommended For You".
2. Opt in to recommendations, if you haven't already.
3. Note the recommendations and the order in which they appear.
4. Click "More".
5. Note the first recommendations and the order in which they appear.
What you see: On the standalone "Recommended For You" screen, the first recommendations are different and in a different order.
What you should see: Both on the home screen and the standalone screen, the first 12 recommendations are the same and in the same order.
This seems to be because on the standalone screen, the recommendations are sorted "By Top Rated" like a category or subcategory would be, with options to sort "By Name" and "By Newest First". But it isn't useful to sort recommendations by anything other than the strength of the recommendation, for exactly the same reason that it isn't useful to sort the "Top Rated" screen by anything other than rating: any other ordering would be dependent on how many applications were shown, which is an arbitrary number.
So the "Recommended For You" screen should not have a sort menu, like "Top Rated" does not, and recommendations should be sorted by strength.
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) |
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) → nobody |
I had omitted this from the specification. Updated: <https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/SoftwareCen ter/Recommendat ions?action= diff&rev2= 10&rev1= 9>