Just to report progress on this discussion - sabdfl has decided to
adopt the name Software Center.
The comments on this thread were very helpful, as were the forum [1]
and brainstorm [2] discussions/votes which showed pretty clear
opinions among the community.
If interested you can track the
Greetings,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:45:55AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Iain Lane la...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Cool. Glad to see that community input is listened to. What does this mean
for the store metaphor throughout the rest of the application?
I don't think
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:14:44PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
It would be cool if Debian and Ubuntu packagers could work together to
address this in the Packages.gz format.
I think this is unlikely to wind up in the Packages file in Debian over
concerns about
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:14:44PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
It would be cool if Debian and Ubuntu packagers could work together to
address this in the Packages.gz format.
I think this is unlikely to wind up in the Packages file in Debian over
concerns about increasing the size of this
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Dylan McCall wrote on 01/09/09 18:15:
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I'm a bit concerned about using price to distinguish things here. The
price: free thing is flawed, because it furthers the misconception
that free software is only free in price, when in fact being free in
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Greg Grossmeier wrote on 28/08/09 14:56:
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Just double checking that I understand this part correctly: we're
going to have a line in every single software package description in
all of the Ubuntu repositories that says Price: Free?
EDIT: Just
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:07 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
The nifty thing about store is that it has those two meanings -- shop,
and repository
I don't agree.
Store primarily means a place where you *purchase* things.
The secondary meaning of a repository implies that it's somewhere
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:04 +0200, Siegfried Gevatter wrote:
I have to add my voice in that I strongly dislike the name containing
Store, for the already echoed reasons. Software Center or even
Add/Remove... are much better names, IMHO.
How about Software Zone or Ubuntu Zone... ;)
I think
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:16:20AM -0700, ajmctaggart wrote:
I definitely agree Bazaar could be confused with bzr,...But it is a word
that seems to align well with Ubuntu and the goals, etc...maybe we just need
It does align nicely, although I think it'd be a strange name for anyone
not
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:27PM +0530, mac_v wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:04 +0200, Siegfried Gevatter wrote:
I have to add my voice in that I strongly dislike the name containing
Store, for the already echoed reasons. Software Center or even
Add/Remove... are much better names, IMHO.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
_like_ Package Bazar. Given we already have a concept of 'packages'
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:42:41AM -0700, ajmctaggart wrote:
post, or bazzar? So what evokes this idea of a trading post or a bazaar in
Given that this word
Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:15 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit :
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I'm a bit concerned about using price to distinguish things here. The
price: free thing is flawed, because it furthers the misconception
that free software is only free in price, when in fact being free in
price is quite
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Loïc Martin wrote on 28/08/09 12:20:
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We all seem to be copying the App Store from Apple (nothing wrong with
that), but perhaps the part we should change isn't so much the first
part in App Store, but the second one? After all, both provide the
My vote is for Software Center.
Pros and cons:
+ Software is more general in meaning (more than just apps) and it
seems to be the the most used term and already the term chosen at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareStore.
+ Some lawers could also claim that AppCenter is too close to Apple's
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Danny
Piccirillodanny.picciri...@gmail.com wrote:
So does this mean no packagekit? I knew plans for it in karmic had been
dropped but this appcenter will replace Add/Remove instead? Would it be
possible and/or worth it to base it on packagekit?
Danny, as per
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Matthew East wrote on 28/08/09 07:47:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Danny
Piccirillodanny.picciri...@gmail.com wrote:
So does this mean no packagekit? I knew plans for it in karmic had been
dropped but this appcenter will replace Add/Remove
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Matthew East wrote on 27/08/09 20:20:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Przemek
Kulczyckiprzemekkulczy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew Eastm...@ubuntu.com wrote:
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Now, AppCenter has a brand name: the Ubuntu
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Paul Thomasm...@canonical.com wrote:
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Matthew East wrote on 27/08/09 20:20:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Przemek
Kulczyckiprzemekkulczy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:07 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
I can see from the spec (and LP answer 81103) that it will be possible
to purchase software from this app in the future, but it will also be
possible to get software for free there, and for that reason I think a
neutral name
(Adding ubuntu-desktop back to cc)
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mackenzie Morganmaco...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 6:44:30 am Matthew East wrote:
I saw that, but the problem is that people will not open the app in
the first place. I saw the name Ubuntu Software Store before
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Matthew East wrote on 28/08/09 11:44:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas
m...@canonical.com wrote:
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Center was unfortunately off-limits because it lacks cross-Atlantic
compatibility, i.e. it differs in US English vs.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Matthew Paul Thomasm...@canonical.com wrote:
Matthew East wrote on 28/08/09 11:44:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas
m...@canonical.com wrote:
...
Center was unfortunately off-limits because it lacks cross-Atlantic
compatibility, i.e. it
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Przemek
Kulczyckiprzemekkulczy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew Eastm...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hi Matthew,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Paul Thomasm...@canonical.com
wrote:
Now, AppCenter has a brand name: the Ubuntu
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