On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Lars E. Pettersson <lars(a)homer.se> wrote:
On 01/26/2014 11:08 AM, drago01 wrote:
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> gcc isn't an application in a sense of "gui application" so there is
> to ways to install it
> either the user installs an IDE which pulls it in as dep or he/she
> installs it using yum/dnf.
Would it not be better to have a 'software center' that includes ALL
software available, be they GUI related or not?
No. Installing a non gui app that is invisible to the user does not
make much sense.
The user that knows about the cmd line can just install it from there as well.
Probably based on
rpm-packages,
No we had that already. A package is an implementation detail. All the
users care about are the applications.
as that is what our system ultimately relies on. A GUI to
handle ALL software available would be better, than one only installing
GUI-related software, in my opinion.
We have some of them already and the user experience is sub par
compared to other plattforms that don't do that.
>> How does 'application' correlates to a rpm-package?
>
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> Application means GUI application that has a .desktop file.
That makes the 'software center' of lesser use, as the user will be confused
when he/she does not find the program/rpm-package/application he/she wants
to install.
Installing an application and then not finding it anywhere is
confusing. So we limit it
to visible apps i.e GUI apps.