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

[Chris Murphy]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


I don't think the solution is merging the GNOME Software and Packages
UI's into one nutty experience.

So what exactly is the problem the target audience has? They want
GNOME Packages to be included again by default so they have both an
application GUI installer, and a packages GUI installer? That doesn't
seem unreasonable on the face of it. I think that's the idea presently
being floated.


-- 
Chris Murphy