Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > We have not made any decisions about whether this program would be based > on PackageKit, Add/Remove Applications, Synaptic, or something else, or > written from scratch. We should first design what it will do and how it > will behave, then work out how to implement it.
As you now doubt have heard numerous times already, if we could ever get to a consistent interface between RPM / DEB based distros that would be a gigantic win for Linux overall. For some extent I therefore think Canonical should have at least a small packagekit bias, should all the available options be _roughly_ equivalent. I also have some feedback on the AppCenter spec (maybe there is something here you'd want to note even though I hope you will measure all such things in a proper UX study). The "new updates available" screen doesn't tell the user which ones are critical/security updates. While the file size of the update is nice to know, it's probably more important to have some icon that marks it as "really important". Windows update seems to have both but they emphasize the "update importance" and just write out the filesize as a "FYI". Popularity stats should not be skewed by "default installs" so I don't think it should be based straight on popcon (maybe it should be weighted against some list of default installed apps or something). Right now it looks like gnome games is more popular than for example freeciv/openarena/chromium which I have a hard time believing. Maybe more people play gnome games (because they are installed by default) but if I go into AppCenter looking for a cool new game that's very "popular", I'm probably looking for something else. I think the terms "Ubuntu Software" and "Partner Software" is a bit unclear. It sounds like the partner software is not Ubuntu software? I guess you are referring to Canonical Maintained apps but I don't have a better name for it. Why is "Fonts" it's own top-level item next to "Ubuntu Software"? I see that the "Description" field for each update is working properly in your mockup. I really hope that you will list that as a explicitly feature and make sure it "just works". Today update-manager has a feature where it shows a description for each update but that functionality very often just doesn't work. One could argue that update-manager is working properly and that it's the underlying infrastructure that doesn't work as it should (for instance "aptitude changelog BLAH" very often doesn't work either) but the end user doesn't care which app is broken and therefore I hope you will strech outside of this new AppCenter UI and fix the _experience_ that is actually delivered to the end user. Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss