On 7 Nov 2014 15:24, "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Paul W. Frields  wrote:
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>> "This assumption doesn't fit me" != "This isn't a good assumption."
>> Revisiting this approach on the basis of how you and I use our systems
>> is not constructive because we are atypical by definition.
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> I don't know about that.   I am providing a rationale which you can agree or disagree with but excluding people as atypical doesn't help.  FYI, I am in a DevOps role now and would count myself as part of the target audience for Fedora workstation since funny enough I am running Fedora in my work laptop and doing the sort of things you would expect someone running Fedora workstation to do. Have we talked to anyone else in the target audience or done any usability studies that suggest that filtering out command line apps or libraries is actually helpful?  What GNOME Software does *is* make an assumption and that needs to be validated.

I actually found Software useful for the first time today. I had vim-enhanced installed but I really wanted gVim. Searching for it using dnf yielded nothing, and of course searching for vim yields loads of noise. (I also tried searching for vim-gtk, vim-gnome, etc.) Searching for vim in Software immediately found what I was after though. If Software included libraries etc. it would be just as unhelpful as dnf for cases like this.

R
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