Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 13:48:07 +0100, Peter Laursen wrote:

> 2)
> > We have gnome-software, which is better for end users in my opinion. It
> > shows actual apps instead of thousands of library packages that confuse
> new
> > users. I don't think we want to change this.
> 
> Still you may want to install software comng from another desktop
> environment (examle: amarok) or something that is not specific for gnome or
> any specific desktop environment at all (like Wine).
> I cannot see what should be confusing . You will use the search field
> (enter "amarok" or "wine" for instance).

Despite its name, gnome-software is _not_ specific to GNOME and _not_
specific to GNOME related applications either. It lists many other
programs (based on special metadata files).