https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402860
--- Comment #5 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to john.liptrot from comment #4) > What % of worldwide users of Discover are realistically going to ever need > to downgrade an app? > > "Discover may be much but it is not an expert application for minute control > of repos. It is not a replacement intended to compete with the terminal for > experienced expert users. Our goal has been to focus clearer on a certain > set of users where an application such as this is not only needed but > critical to their usage. To do this we have excluded other user groups > entirely from the application goals. This doesn't mean they can't use > Discover just that their specific use cases may not be perfectly covered." > > From: https://userbase.kde.org/Discover > > Anyone who is even aware that you can downgrade an app in the first place is > likely to be a software developer, programmer, power user etc and they would > probably just use the command line anyway. I agree with Aleix here, I think > this is quite a specific corner case. Since you asked with "ever", I think close to 100% will at lest once need such a feature! I needed once to revert to an older version of a downloader that I used as the updated version broke it so bad that I could not use it at all anymore. It was a pain to find an older .deb version and then to fight with discover to not update it again! Your response is very disappointing for the power users an your motto "Simple by default, powerful when needed"! Where is the "powerful when needed" part? Aren't enough just "simple" DEs and software centers out there? Why do you want that Discover remain a good enough software center, good just for noobs? Why we, the power users, that maybe we are more tech-savvy and experienced an not being afraid of using the terminal, always be forced to use the terminal to do some stuff? We chose Plasma exactly because is more advanced than other DEs and its default programs are also more advanced than the competition. In that case why should the software center not be more advanced than the ones of the other DEs? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
