Am 05.01.2015 um 06:18 schrieb Chris Murphy:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy < wrote:
>>
>> There's already an application that does this, it's GNOME
>> Packages or use yum/dnf.
>
>
> If this was the answer, there wouldn't be so many repeated discussions about
> it. Users don't differentiate between say htop and geany as much as the
> designers seem to have assumed. They treat them both as essentially
> "applications". However it doesn't fit the definition that GNOME
Software
> has and ends up being not included. There are also users who love the
> ratings and additional metadata that GNOME Software brings and they
> wouldn't get any of that with GNOME Packages or yum. dnf search is even more
> limiting since it doesn't offer even the rudimentary filtering by name that
> yum offers. GNOME Packages also is not included by default. In other
> words, GNOME Software solves a problem very well but unfortunately doesn't
> solve the problems that the target audience has that much.
I don't think the solution is merging the GNOME Software and Packages
UI's into one nutty experience.
surely, make a tab "extended" or however you call it and you are done -
however, a default software installer not showing a large perecntage of
usefool tools and applications because they are not shiny enough is
ridiculous and even more need install a additional one