It could be a new nice feature, unless there a quick way to set it somewhere.
Do you remember those two Grid & List orange buttons to the right of the product listing sorting header?
Customers can press and change on the fly how the listed products are layed out, no matter if it's a list built from Search or by browsing Categories.
Now the problem is, only a few customers really know and use these buttons; and there is no Setting found in the AC to control the default behavior.
The default "Grid" layout is fine when applied to the lists built from browsing Categories; but the lists built from Search -- there should be a way to change the defaults separately, like to show the Search results in the form of the List rather than Grid. With the "List" type arrangement the customers can see product descriptions shown under the thumbs. These descriptions are helpful for the lists built from Search because search results are quite random, detached from the categories, so the customers often get lost.
These 2 orange buttons to switch between 'grid' and 'list' are reflected in "Sorting + Pagination" section of
public_html/storefront/view/default_html5/template/pages/product/search.tpl
But how to specify which button is pressed by default for the list built from Category and the list built from Search (separately)?
We would like to be able to specify the default one (the List) specifically for the products found in Search while leaving it as is (the Grid) for those customers who prefer browsing Categories. If you know the place where to look at into the code for the Search, we would appreciate that.
The only seemingly related note we found in the release notes for 1.1.8 was
"default_html5 minor fix related to product listing buttons for product"
(
http://www.abantecart.com/shopping-cart-news/125-abantecart-new-version-118 )
Not sure how that fix aligned with this feature.
