Vscode: Install extension ranking is bad

[Tyriar]

It's sorting the partial matches by install count, regardless of relevance.

[Tyriar]

This is also harmful imo as lesser known niche extensions will never get installed unless they're found via browsing the web interface.

[rebornix]

+1, the only way to get more audience for now is more downloads, which makes extensions less detectable.

Speaking of relevance, do we need to implement some special alogrithm to define relevance? For instance, when people search for php extensions, a debugger+intellisense extensions is more relevant than a theming extension, regardless of the name.

[joaomoreno]

The marketplace has implemented a relevance sort order. We can jump onto it. Here are some query results, for reference.

A good one:

An OK one:

Hmm:

You can get the same results by running a search in the marketplace page.

If we do the jump, we should make sure the relevance is better tuned.

[alefragnani]

What about _expanding_ the Install Extension command, creating commands for each _Category_?

This way, the user could search specifically for Themes, Languages, Debuggers, etc, and its category could be applied as the first filter, regardles the relevance criteria that already exists.

[Tyriar]

I think this should be dealt with sooner rather than later, right now the installation advice given on the marketplace is wrong because of this. Consider https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AdamCaviness.theme-monokai-dark-soda

[joaomoreno]

Oh that's a much worse problem! #7327

[joaomoreno]

Verification: search for extensions, they should not be sorted by download count.