https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508267
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > I worry that if we add more categories to the home page, they'll be > redundant with the categories shown in the sidebar. …Unless we add > *different* categories to the home page, but then that just presents more > choice and could, I fear, lead to choice overload. > > If we add any more categories to the homepage, I think we'd need to hide the > sidebar until the user navigates elsewhere. But that would prevent the > sidebar from being a global UI element that anchors the UI, as it currently > is. > > I think this needs some design thought around this. Personally I don't think it would be redundant because the home page would focus on recommendations. It could even, like, pick a set of 30 highest rated apps on each category and rotate them daily, showing a random selection of 8-10 from that pool. I do understand though if devs disagree. In that case, my alternative suggestion would be to get rid of the seemingly random games and dev tools categories on the home page (why those two when there are so many others?) and expand the number of apps shown for Most Popular/Published and updated recently/Editor's choice. They could show a rotated selection of like 10-15 apps each. Currently my Most Popular shows only 5 apps, Published and updated recently shows 8 and Editor's choice shows 9, and it's always the same apps every day. It makes the home page kinda useless because it always has the same suggestions. Increasing the number and rotating them would improve the discoverability of new, high quality apps. Whatever path devs and designers decide to take, the home page definitely needs some changes to become more dynamic and useful for Discovering (ha!) new programs. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
