> And especially, I'm looking forward to Trisquel's new software center.
I've reviewed various alternative apt frontends. The only ones that I liked were apper and mx-package-installer, neither of which is a suitable replacement for gnome-app-install: apper does not distinguish between applications and other kinds of packages, so it is a synaptic alternative rather than a gnome-app-install alternative, and while I like it, I think that synaptic is better overall. Moreover, apper is Qt-based, which would be fine for Trisquel, but Trisquel Mini avoids Qt in order to keep resource usage down. mx-package-installer does distinguish between applications and other kinds of packages, but via manual curation, which is not the ideal direction for us I think. It also seems a little more geared toward intermediate users. It's pretty neat, offering a little of what gnome-app-install does, plus what synaptic does, plus some additional features. I think that modifying it to remove all of the recommendations for non-free crap would be a worthwhile project in itself, but it would not be a good replacement for gnome-app-install. Since I did not find a good alternative, I am going to try to fix up and preserve gnome-app-install. I have ported it from Gtk2 to Gtk3 and am now cleaning up as well as fixing some preexisting bugs. Then I'll port it from Python 2 to Python 3. Meanwhile, Ark74 is working on a method of regenerating the backend data using Trisquel's repositories so that to replace the four-year-old data that was based on Ubuntu's repositories at the time. > I wonder whether I could bring this purified version of software > manager to Debian. I see no reason that it wouldn't work with Debian. The backend data would just need to be regenerated using Debian's repositories instead of Trisquel's.
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