Feature changed by: Tom Zöhner (zoehneto) Feature #310379, revision 3 Title: SUSE Application Center openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Otso Rajala (daedaluz) Description: Ubuntu 9.10 had one great new feature in it: the Ubuntu Software Center. It's radically dumped down, clean and uncluttered version of Synaptic. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter) for throughout description. It is not intended to replace Synaptic, but to make installing software more accessible. This is definitely something openSUSE needs. YaST is even more powerful than Synaptic, but it's also more cluttered (at least in KDE). Thus, the demand for clearly presented centralized software installation and removal is also larger. I'm proposing, that we bluntly copy Ubuntu Software Center principles and create a native Qt interface for KDE. We might even go further, and give it even sharper "app store" look & feel by making it to present graphical applications only. More advanced users could use YaST or zypp like nothing happened. Use Case: Case 1: New user wants to install Kdenlive. Search in YaST provides plethora of packages, including libraries & debug items. Confusing. Search in Application Center produces only one result. Case 2: advanced user wants to take a glimpse what's available for his new desktop after installation. Application Center presents only graphical applications, offering quick method to do that. + Discussion: + #1: Tom Zöhner (zoehneto) (2010-08-20 18:01:20) + Yast is, in my opinion, much easier to use then Synaptik, so i think it + would be wrong to default to a "Ubuntu Software Center" type thing (it + needs to be the default, otherwise its not easy) which is in no way + Power full and doesn't make sense since for example + "add/remove Repositorys" isn't made simple. For these reasons I suggest + we don't integrate a "Package management for idiots" solution and + instead (if it really is cluttered, which i don't think it is) fix + Yast. + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310379