On 11/25/2011 06:18 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Brendan Jones > <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 11/26/2011 12:03 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: >>> As promised in my previous mail, here is what I find that's lacking in >>> Fedora, compared to the direct competition (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse), >>> and recently even some proprietary systems: we don't have an application >>> installer. >> >> Are we in a race? > > Not sure what you are trying to say ... but the current situation > simply sucks from a users pov. > > We should focus on fixing it. I agree with others, we shouldn't "copy" the solution from other distro's. However I also agree that there's a common underlying usability feature here: New Fedora and/or Linux users not making the leap between installing applications and installing packages (not that they're 1:1 anyway). In the interest of constructively addressing basic new user usability, here's an idea- How about a package (installed by default) that enabled the display of all Fedora-provided GUI app. ICONS in the menu, installed or not. Then, if a user clicks an application that's not installed, pop up the package installer with the set of required packages pre-selected. i.e. analogous to the missing-binary command-line package installer functionality. Perhaps there are other alternative ideas that could solve the underlying usability issue? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
