On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here there's a video displaying what it does, in case you're just curious: >> http://proli.net/meu/netrunner/muon-installer-qml-8.ogv > > > Your video is very nice. You may want to consider putting it on YouTube for > mobile viewers as well. > > The interface seems to be very well thought-out. I'm a big fan of what > Ubuntu has provided for a software manager, and Muon seems to be similar in > a lot of ways. > > Room for improvement: > > Search relevance: > Kalgebra is a "featured" or "advertised" product, but when you search for > "Math", you have to scroll down quite a bit to find it. > > Consistency in browsing: > In one screen you get a nice thumbnail view (afer clicking on "Eductation"), > however when you search for "Math", you get a different style list without > thumbnails. > > Install experience: > I didn't see a demo of using Muon for installing a downloaded .deb file (I > use this a lot for VirtualBox) but in Linux Mint this breaks for VirtualBox > upgrades. This experience can make or break it for the REAL audience, since > most people on this mailing list are comfortable with dpkg and apt-get.
.deb files are handled via the QApt Deb Installer, and don't involve Muon at all. This has been the case for Kubuntu 11.10 and up. > > Very fine work, and thanks for asking for feedback! > > -Tres > > > -Tres > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
