Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

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.

Rahul
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