On 01/08/15 02:50, Iain Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:13:39PM +0300, Amr Ibrahim wrote: >> Dear developers, >> >> USC is getting old. It is in Python 2, and probably will never be ported to >> Python 3. >> >> I suggest dropping USC in future Ubuntu releases and adopt GNOME Software. >> >> GNOME Software is build on newer GNOME technologies. It, of course, needs >> some modifications to support the same features which are supported by USC, >> like purchasing applications. > I think some work on a port was undertaken a while ago, but stalled > because not all dependencies were ported. So it might not be a big job > to pick that up and move USC to Python 3. > > It is fair to say that the software centre hasn't seen much feature > development in recent times. I agree that it would be interesting for us > to look into adopting GNOME Software in future. I've not looked at it > much myself but it seems as if it would provide a nice user experience. We obviously want this for Ubuntu GNOME > > There would be some problems to solve first though - off the top of my > head they include > > - How to provide Appstream/DEP-11 metadata (what's the status of this > in Debian? How's our coverage?) I believe this is close, its running in tanglu at the moment, and shouldnt be far off landing in debian. They have a dedicated server that generates the metadata and then syncs it into the archive, I believe. Been meaning to chat with Matthias about this to get further details though. > - Ratings and Reviews - do we need to support them? If so, that will > need to be added. > - Purchasing. Do we still want a way to purchase things? What about > people who already did so on previous releases - how can we keep > giving them access to their goodies? > - Smaller tweaks like adding installed programs (with desktop files) > to the launcher, UI changes for Unity, … > > Just my views. I don't know what the rest of the desktop team thinks, > but I'd be keen to at least investigate the possibility of doing this, > unless we decide to dust USC off. > > Cheers, > > >
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