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+Fabian Scherschel oh, I find out about stuff from here too, but the latency of g+ is too slow for me for some things. I want a todo app: I search for it first. If I can't find one that looks good, or if I find fifteen that all look good and are all reviewed well, then I'll tweet about it or ask here or something. I like what Google have done with making g+ posts from people I know show up in relevant search results; I can't see why that shouldn't happen with app reviews too. I care what my friends think of an app more than random people, but that's a problem which is solveable with technology, no? :)Mar 20, 2012
In 1999 I used my browser's bookmarks for the websites I visited frequently, and I had a big old list of a couple hundred bookmarks and bookmark folders that I would scroll through.
In 2012 I only use bookmarks for websites I rarely visit, because both Firefox and Chromium are make it easier to find recently and frequently visited sites via search than having to find it in a list of bookmarks. I now have less than a dozen bookmarks.Mar 20, 2012
+Stuart Langridge I am not sure. There are problems that are very hard to solve with technology. App store discovery seems to be one of them.Mar 20, 2012- +Fabian Scherschel I think some of that is the leecher problem: sure, I'm happy to see reviews from my friends of apps, but I don't want anyone to be able to tell what I've installed. It's asymmetrical. This harks back to larger conversations about the nature of privacy these days...Mar 20, 2012
Couple thoughts about searching/browsing menus:
1. When you search, you need to know, what you want to find. It's hard to discover functionality of a program with just guessing what might be in its menu.
2. Searching involves using keyboard and knowing alphabet. Think about kids and people with disabilities.
3. “If a game doesn't come up when you search for "game", it's a bug in that game's .desktop file.”
It's nice and all in English localization but fails to work on my Ubuntu with Polish interface. When I search for “gra” (Polish word for “game”) I get only one game in results. It's better when I search for “game” (5 results) but in fact I have 14 games installed. I have no idea if .desktop files are translatable.
Personally I'm waiting to try HUD and I thing it'll work well for my specific needs but I won't put searching over browsing or other way around. In this (rare) case I have to agree with +Fabian Scherschel, it is like comparing oranges with apples.Mar 21, 2012- The Keywords field of the .desktop file in translatable, so it's still a bug.
And my kids are pretty good on the keyboard, so I'm not sure there's a problem there either.Mar 21, 2012
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