Another point that may be relevant to this bug is that some applications (eg vlc, hexchat) are listed twice in Ubuntu Software (I'm running 16.04 amd64). This will surely confuse users. Even if the user knows that one is the snap and the other is the non snap it's not immediately obvious which is which. (Snaps seem to be much bigger than non snaps, so the bigger package (of two) will be the snap.)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658785 Title: Snap documentation in 17.04? Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Do we say anything about snaps in the 17.04 desktop help and if so what do we say? If snaps are experimental and subject to change then perhaps we should say nothing? Below I give some points about snaps worth thinking about (as regards how we document them): The logon to Ubuntu One in Ubuntu Software when one tries to install a snap will surely create confusion. I saw one example on the #ubuntu channel where people were confused by it (with good reason in my opinion). At present you don't have to logon to Ubuntu One if you install a snap from the command line. Why are Ubuntu Software and the command line treated differently in this respect? I don't know much about snaps but in the manual for the snap command there are options to buy a snap and log on to the snap store. I would imagine that at present there are no snaps that one has to pay for - but there will be soon? Snaps are visible in the Disks application as "devices". This is very confusing in my opinion. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1658785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
