Improve available filters + UX for app installation flow in 'Machine Config'

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Improve available filters + UX for app installation flow in 'Machine Config' #704

Open joadoumie opened 1 year ago

joadoumie commented 1 year ago

Suggested new feature or improvement

Users should be able to better filter apps based on tags and package type. Goal is to have an improved design + better searching functionality.

Scenario

A user could filter for specific packages to see in the app installation flow search (e.g. 'Gaming Development') to only better show packages that are relevant to their search.

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joadoumie commented 1 year ago

Need to also consider situations for the following actions:

A user wants to update an app
A user wants to repair an app (dependency on winget repair)

denelon commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/148

denelon commented 1 year ago

WinGet doesn't have a notion of "categories".

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/1237

The challenge is figuring out the right list of them and how we manage that list over time. There are also concerns about how many categories a package can be included in.