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Bug 769071 - Categories should have a custom order on the landing page
Categories should have a custom order on the landing page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
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Reported: 2016-07-22 08:52 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2016-07-22 11:36 UTC
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Description Allan Day 2016-07-22 08:52:56 UTC 
The categories on the landing page currently have an alphabetical order. This isn't optimal - from a UX perspective it is better to promote the more interesting/important categories over others.

The mockups include a suggested order:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups-software/master/wireframes/categories.png
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2016-07-22 11:36:23 UTC 
commit 7148a94505deb722fdf20f45f186e997d216588e
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 22 11:36:32 2016 +0100

    Repurpose the 'important' property of a GsCategory into an integer for sorting
    
    This lets us remove the hacky promotion and demotion of important categories,
    and also allows us to 'curate' the order of the categories manually.
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769071