On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/26/2014 11:08 AM, drago01 wrote: >> >> 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? >> >> >> 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. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
