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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.01.2015 um 06:18 schrieb Chris Murphy:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at 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

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