On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:00:16PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Given that the only way to install the thing is to go to the
> Details
> view, it doesn't seem necessary to plaster "3rd party, danger!"
> onto
> every tile in that view.
It doesn't need to say "3rd party, danger", but it does need to
communicate "3rd party: please be aware".
> Also, you get a pretty prominent dialog asking you to confirm that
> you
> want to install software from a 3rd party source, if you go ahead
> and
> click install. Sadly, system modals don't show up on screenshots it
> seems, so you'll have to try yourself to see it.
That does help, and I don't remember if that was part of the design
discussion. I don't think it's sufficient just list where the
*download* comes from, though, because I can download official Fedora
content from, many places (
mit.edu,
kernel.org, etc.), and it's not
clear that I'm downloading non-Fedora code just because it's
downloading from
extensions.gnome.org. I think there's room for
incremental improvements to make this better.
This feels like moving the goalposts, tbh. Downloading random rpms off
the internet is not part of the UX supported by gnome software.
And I'm fairly confident that if you ask the mythical 'novice' user
what it means that it is downloading from