[Bug 862382] Re: On new Ubuntu installation, "What's New" and "Top Rated" on home screen are confused

[Michael Vogt]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can reproduce this and I fixed the empty new section on a fresh install now by just hidding it if we have no data. That 
seems to be the least risky change at this point. 

In the first screenshot the top rated its not actually sorted by
"newness" but instead by randomness, there is no data on either new nor
rating available at this point.In the second screenshot what appears to
be "new" is again more or less random as at this point all applications
have the same "cataloged time" value (the data/time of the fresh
install).

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Title:
  On new Ubuntu installation, "What's New" and "Top Rated" on home
  screen are confused

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Software Center 4.1.23.4, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 2

  1. Install Ubuntu without choosing the "Download updates while installing" option.
  2. Restart into Ubuntu.
  3. Launch Ubuntu Software Center.

  What you see:
  * "What's New" shows as an empty box.
  * "Top Rated" shows not the top rated items, but the newest items.

  What you should see:
  * "What's New" shows the newest items.
  * "Top Rated" shows the top rated items.

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