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Bug 776955 - URL search UI can be smarter and better
URL search UI can be smarter and better
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: wizard
3.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-01-06 16:10 UTC by Debarshi Ray
Modified: 2018-01-11 10:49 UTC
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Description Debarshi Ray 2017-01-06 16:10:10 UTC 
When searching for an ISO in New -> Enter URL, if I search for 'fedora' it gives me a bunch of URLs. However, if I type 'fedora 24' to narrow it down, then it doesn't give me any hits.

The search results contain a lot of really old releases - Fedora 10 in 2017! We should at least sort the list in a reverse chronological order based on the release date.

Finally, the long middle-ellipsized URLs are not easy to read. For example, each Fedora release has a whole bunch of ISO variants, which I can only make sense of if I take a close peek at the strings. If it was a distribution that I am not that familiar with, I would have a harder time. Maybe we should have some human-readable title and de-emphasize the real URL?
Comment 1 Felipe Borges 2017-03-01 15:44:44 UTC 
I would like to have a sort-able index where we could abstract the URLs and just list SOs icons, names, and versions.

Can we discuss a design for that?
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-11 10:49:06 UTC 
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