[MacPorts] #19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation
#19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: jmpp@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Website & Documentation Component: website | Version: Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- If you're on a category page, the only available navigation links let you go to pages by number. This is not useful if you want to, say, browse a category for all ports whose names start with a particular letter. This deficiency was pointed out to me via email by Mojca Miklavec. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19298> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation ---------------------------+-------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: jmpp@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------- Comment (by egall@…): So mojca@macports.org should probably be cc-ed on this issue, right? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19298#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation ---------------------------+-------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: jmpp@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * cc: mojca@… (added) Comment: I have considered this problem recently, and I'm not convinced by-letter navigation is doable. It might work acceptably for categories where the first letter of the port names have a somewhat uniform distribution. But categories like python, perl and php will have quite a large collision as most of the ports in those categories begin with the same letters. Ultimately, I think lists of ports in categories are not very useful for users, and we should focus instead on having a good search function that will let users find what they're looking for. Lists of ports in categories are still a good way for search engines to index our ports tree, but they don't care that they're navigating by page number. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19298#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by mf2k@…): * owner: jmpp@… => macports-tickets@… * type: defect => enhancement Comment: jmpp is no longer active. See #44809. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19298#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#19298: ports.php: category pages hard to navigate; consider by-letter navigation ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by mf2k@…): * cc: mojca@… (removed) * cc: mojca@… (added) -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19298#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
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