In v1, the Center doesn't show software in third-party repositories at all. In
v2 it will, though, and your scenario is a useful contribution to the design of
that feature. As I said, "Get Software" will likely become a section with "Free
Software" and "Paid Software" subsections, but I was supposing that wouldn't
happen until v3. The example of a private repository of site-licensed software,
though, shows that we'd need to have subsections for v2. Something like:
Get Software
|– Free Software
|– MyExample Repository
'– Medibuntu Repository
That way, we wouldn't be incorrectly assuming any particular non-ubuntu.com
repository was "free software". I've added a reminder to the spec about this.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter?action=diff&rev2=218&rev1=217> Thanks!
That leaves the suggestion of changing "Get Software" to "Available
Software". I did consider that wording early in the design process, but
I thought "available" was a little too vague -- people might misconstrue
"available" as "available on my computer". That said, I plan to organize
user testing on the navigation in general soon, and if it shows the
wording needs changing, we'll try "Available".
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Software Center should not use the word "Free Software"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442882
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