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 * Having an integrated, gorgeous tool for installing and uninstalling packages and installing security updates, and having it before any other distro, will give Ubuntu a usability advantage for the next few months.  * Having an integrated, gorgeous tool for installing and uninstalling packages and installing security updates, and having it before any other distro does, will give Ubuntu a usability advantage for the next few months.
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 * Screenshots
 * AutoPackage integration?

Summary

Rationale

  • "How do I install programs?" is one of the most common questions on the Ubuntu forums. In Ubuntu you can use gnome-app-install or synaptic for installing and uninstalling programs that have a .desktop file, synaptic for installing and uninstalling programs that don't, and update-manager or synaptic for installing updates. This is a confusing multiplication of graphical interfaces.

  • Having an integrated, gorgeous tool for installing and uninstalling packages and installing security updates, and having it before any other distro does, will give Ubuntu a usability advantage for the next few months.
  • "Synaptic" was an unfortunately obscure name anyway, and "gnome-app-install" is misleading when installing non-Gnome apps.

Use cases

Scope

Design

  • Dynamically filtered view of programs or packages: 
    Show: [programs you can install :^]         Search: [______________]
  • Menu choices are:
    • programs you can install (default when invoked manually)
    • programs already installed
    • packages available
    • packages installed
    • security updates (search field replaced by "Updates available" text)
    • all updates
  • Items in the list have iconic pull-down menus that look like menus, not checkboxes.
  • Recommendations and suggestions are shown as children of an item in the list (recommendations selected by default, suggestions not).
  • Multi-level undo.

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

SoftwareCenter (last edited 2019-04-28 16:57:10 by mpt)