Den Monday 07 May 2007 06:36:06 skrev Justin Haygood:
After all of the package management discussion, I had an idea. Why not port Ubuntu's gnome-app-install to zypp for GNOME users? (Or create our own). This will provide an easy to use interface to install applications (not packages, not patterns, applications!). Why is this needed? Aunt Jill or Grandpa Bill or Cousin Fred who used Windows doesn't know or care what a package is, but knows very much what an application is.
What do people think? I'm very willing to commit resources (programming abilities and free time) for this idea.
I'm not quite sure. We've just gotten rid of a lot of dublicate software management tools for 10.3. Should we add more? I don't follow Ubuntu very closely, but it seems to me the "add/remove"-thingy causes a great deal of confusion - once you tell people: "you can use add/remove for this, but you have to use synaptic for that". If I'm not mistaken the add/remove-thingy is rather limited. Might be better to just have the one tool - sometimes things are made more complicated when you try to make them easier. I don't agree that people need to understand about packages to use sw_single. .. just fire it up -> search for Thunderbird -> tick it off -> Click accept. And now we don't even have the debuginfo packages on standard repos to confuse people anymore.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org