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* Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu
@ 2015-02-15 22:38 Artur Malabarba
  2015-02-16  2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Artur Malabarba @ 2015-02-15 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The package menu is fantastic when you know what you're looking for. You
just search for the package name or for a phrase, and you're likely to find
it.

It's not that great when you just want to browse, specially if you have
Melpa and Marmalade configured, simply because the menu is overwhelming. A
few items that stand out to me:

1. The package list is ginormous and growing.
2. There are duplicate entries galore.
3. There's no useful sense of categories. (we have keywords,but see below).
4. Are there other points that people feel can be improved?

I can see myself writing something to improve 2.

Any solution for 3 would also be a solution for 1, but I'm not sure what
that would be.

Also regarding 3: We have keywords but they are not the same thing as
categories.
I'm not saying we should come up with yet another classification, but I'm
saying that keywords need some serious work. It's not obvious to the user
what keywords are available or how to browse them. And they're sort of all
over the place with a lot of overlap.

Cheers to all,
Artur

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2015-02-15 22:38 Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu Artur Malabarba
2015-02-16  2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-18 16:23 ` raman
2015-04-18 11:26   ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-04-18 13:25     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-18 13:25     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-18 21:11     ` raman
2015-04-18 23:05       ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-04-19  1:20         ` Alexis
2015-04-19  3:16           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-19  4:03             ` Alexis
2015-04-19 16:14             ` raman
2015-04-20  1:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-19 16:12         ` raman
2015-04-20  1:22           ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-04-20  9:02             ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 15:18             ` raman
2015-04-20 15:23               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  0:20                 ` raman
2015-04-21  1:07                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-19  2:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-19 14:58   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-20  8:38     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-20  9:26       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 10:17         ` Alexis
2015-04-20 11:30           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 14:32             ` Drew Adams
2015-04-20 17:32               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 18:17                 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-20 19:49                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 20:30                     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  4:05                       ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-21  5:25                         ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  6:52                           ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-21  9:04                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-21 15:44                             ` Drew Adams
2015-04-20 14:03           ` Eric Abrahamsen

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