On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> The line was drawn in Software to define an "Application" as something
> that has a desktop file -- aka a GUI application. Although you could argue
> that mutt, vim, git etc are applications also but users are going to use
> them on a command line, so i think the assumption that was made was that
> those users would be comfortable using the command line to install them.
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I have noted this before but this isn't a good assumption. I am very
comfortable using yum,dnf etc but I would prefer to use GNOME Software
since I get the benefit of ratings and while I am using GNOME Software to
install a bunch of apps, picking up git and mutt (or even graphical apps
that don't ship with appdata etc) along the way is easier than mentally
switching contexts depending on whether the app fits GNOME Software
requirements to be listed.
"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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