#11674: [HaikuDepot] cache featured packages
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Reporter: diver | Owner: apl-haiku
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/HaikuDepot | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by cb88):
This is kind of related to this....
People reviewing the Beta as first time Haiku users open up HaikuDepot
don't see anything for awhile (this bug) and when they do its only like
10-20 Featured packages.
So they assumingly think there is very little software available.
Rather than just speeding up Featured packages, how about disabling
featured packages by default and show populating package statistics as
HaikuDepot refreshes the info. in the empty panel below the package list
eg, available package count, perhaps counting up as the data is loaded,
latest updated packages list perhaps, then add filters for
Featured/Curated packages and/or other relevant filters (I'd like
Native/Java/QT/Console/Libraries etc...) so all packages are shown by
default and users can filter them on their own terms.
The reason I say this is you're much less likely to loose people's
attention if you show you are doing something and give them something to
look at for a bit. The Find... dialog is a great example imagine if it
just hung and displayed nothing until it had completed it's search yes it
would still be fast but it would be boring to use.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11674#comment:17>
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