Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Grossmeier wrote on 28/08/09 14:56: ... 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

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
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

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread mac_v
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

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
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

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
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.

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
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

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:15 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : snip 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

Desktop Team 20090901 meeting minutes

2009-09-01 Thread Rick Spencer
Here are the minutes from the desktop team meeting. You can also find them and the irc log here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-09-01 = Meeting Minutes = == Present == === Main Meeting === * Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair * Alexander Sack (asac) * Arne Goetje