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Bug 767097 - Reorganise subcategories and remove subcategory sidebars
Reorganise subcategories and remove subcategory sidebars
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
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Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-06-01 09:24 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-01-24 17:08 UTC
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Description Allan Day 2016-06-01 09:24:58 UTC 
The current subcategories aren't very good:

 * Some contain very few apps
 * Each category contains a subcategory called "other" - not useful if you are browsing a store
 * Some have technical names, like "OCR" or "raster graphics

It would improve the experience if we therefore cleaned up the subcategories so we only show the useful ones. A proposal for how to do this is here:

https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/software-categories

Reorganising the subcategories also requires that we change the UI for navigating them - with fewer subcategories a sidebar isn't a good fit. Wireframes for an alternative approach:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups-software/master/wireframes/category-pages.png
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 17:08:08 UTC 
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