Only one page of snaps on SnapWeb?

[Jamie Bennett]

Hi Chris,

> On 19 Dec 2016, at 15:52, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 11:06 +0000, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 18 Dec 2016, at 14:31, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've asked this before but I'm still wondering why there is only
>>> one
>>> page of snaps listed (A-E)? I can do a search for a snap such as
>>> 'PubIP' and it will come up but there is no way in SnapWeb to go
>>> forward from the first page.
>> 
>> This functionality is being worked on but the idea of SnapWeb is not
>> to show you every single possible snap that can be installed (that
>> would quickly get quiet unwieldily), instead we aim to surface the
>> most prominent snaps. Think of it like a real bricks-and-mortar
>> store; the snaps that are featured are right there in the store
>> window for everyone to see, the most popular snaps per category are
>> in their own sections, and the stuff that you knew up front you
>> wanted but can’t find being displayed can always be retrieved from
>> the warehouse. So mapping that to what we have in the SnapWeb edge
>> channel today, the front store page should be [1] the featured snaps,
>> at the top you can select categories like database, media, messaging
>> [2] for the most popular snaps in that category, and if you know what
>> you want you can use the search bar.
>> 
>> SnapWeb is being actively worked on so you will see lots of changes
>> regularly. If you want to see the latest please:
>> 
>>   $ snap refresh —edge snapweb
>> 
>> or, on a system without snapweb
>> 
>>   $ snap install —edge snapweb
>> 
> Thanks for the explanation Jamie. Using the above command I updated to
> 0.23.9 and reloaded snapweb in Firefox. I'm curious though as to what's
> the purpose of what I show in the screenshot.

This too is work in progress, as the —edge channel disclaimer implies. The team are looking to add more functionality to SnapWeb to expose the most common requirements for a web-based frontend on an IoT gateway-like device. This includes showing information about the device itself, any users that are associated with the device, software updates available, and to allow some settings to be changed. What your screenshot shows is the beginning of that work.

Keep an eye out for more changes and improvements to the project in the coming weeks/months.

>> and file any bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapweb
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jamie.
>> 
>> [1] “should be” - this functionality is currently being worked on and
>> is very new.
>> [2] Snap Sections are again very new. We are still coming up with the
>> right naming scheme and ensuring each snap is in the right place. 
>> 
>>> 
>>>  
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