License filter on tag lists

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Right, I know I should be out in the sun enjoying my vacation in Thailand, but I've gotten really sunburned, so today I've stayed in the room for a few hours, and I figured I might as well hack together an often requested feature; License filters.

For now, I've added it to the tag lists, so that when you are on a tag list, like the game tag, you can now restrict the listing to apps that have a free license, or commercial apps by using the sidebar on the right hand side. This also works fine on combined tags like browser+web.

I added this feature on the tag lists for now, since that's what made the most sense to me, but I'd love to hear from you if you want this feature in other places as well, or if you think the list should be more granular, for instance.

Hope this helps. Take care.

2 Comments

Tim Altman said:

What if the app is commercial, yet free? Or open source, but donation-ware? I’m not sure a simple SELECT element really handles all the possible situations. Maybe a bunch of checkboxes?

marcus said:

not sure how using checkboxes would handle those two situations. Anyways, it seems to work pretty well in practice as it is now. :) A bunch of checkboxes sounds more user-hostile to me.

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