Thank you for your answer Matthew.
> So there is a very easy way for you to help more people know that > totem-plugin-arte exists: mark it as "Enhances: totem". I will do this, however I'm sure totem-plugin-arte appeared on the totem add-ons list when I reported this bug. Perhaps it changed with the last software-center update? Otherwise, for example, is "Enhances: totem" sufficient for this package to be displayed by default (not being said "technical") when someone type "arte" in the search field? > In the particular case of watching Arte.tv, that is not (or should not be) a > technical task, but it's not an advanced task either. > So I don't think making a distinction between "technical" and "advanced" > would help us here. Of course you are right, but I wanted to say that this distinction can also be a partial workaround in such a case (even if it is said "advanced", the package is displayed by default in search results). But I really think this kind of distinction is important: experienced users will probably like it (no more Synaptic, so we have to take care of them too!) and even if beginners may not use utilities in this category, it's also important that they don't feel Ubuntu is limited. To sum-up my thought: display more search results by default with an advanced category == first time user say: "This Ubuntu thing is really good, I can do many advanced things with it if I want. But for now I will just install this non-advanced app." The best would be to only have "full working utilities/packages" in this category (eg. not all those *-data packages which are useless alone, but utilities such as "texlive", "man2html", "nethack-console" and so). All other packages may be considered "technical" and not be displayed by default in search results. As a first start, maybe just considering *-dev/*-dbg/*-data/lib* packages "technical" may be sufficient, usually it's just dependencies or you may use "apt-get buid-dep" or so. Do you see my point? -- Many useful packages are said "technical" and not displayed by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/634164 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
