> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 02:06:51AM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > Can someone help me understand whats being asked for here? I can > > > only > > > guess that I'm not the only person confused by this thread. > > > > Icons. The only thing I can see that Giovanni has mentioned that > > Packagekit > > doesn't provide is icons. Presumably he wants each application's > > own icon to > > be displayed in the list of available applications. Packagekit > > seems to > > display those only for installed packages, which is understandable > > as it would > > otherwise have to download all the packages and extract the icons. > > Being devil's advocate here, it's not just icons. If you have a look > at something like the Android Marketplace[1] you'll see there are: > > - app summaries > - contributed reviews > - scores-out-of-5 > - an indication of how many people downloaded each program > - "top" apps in various categories (however that is calculated) > - a good search engine Another cool feature I think would be integration with our other fedora infrastructure (bugs, updates-testing & feedback). 1) So you can see a list of bugs affecting a package at the time of installing 2) Also to get more people involved in testing updates you could set your self as a tester of a package and get notified of bugs & fixes to a package. Basically an easier interface to "A Glorious Vision of Our Shared Update Feedback Future" -Angus > > This reveals another flaw in this plan which is for this software > centre to be effective, it's going to require full time management to > filter out spammy reviews, optimize the search engine, classify apps > into logical groups, and to pick apps for top tables. > > Rich. > > [1] https://market.android.com/?hl=en > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
