Am 07.03.2014 20:42, schrieb Przemek Klosowski: > On 03/07/2014 11:21 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: >> On 7 March 2014 14:08, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Microsoft, Apple, and Google set requirements that apps must follow if >>> they want to appear in the software center in order to ensure a good >>> user experience. >> This is something I absolutely want to do. We already rate the >> applications in GNOME 3.12 depending on how many positive attributes >> they have (the star ratings) and I think it's fine to set a minimum >> standard and slowly raise the bar over time. Showing 500 applications >> that hits some absolute minimum level is much better than showing an >> additional 500 basically crap applications. >> > This decision should belong to the user, though. It's one thing to default to showing only five-star applications > (GTK2, icon with transparency, AppData with translations) while allowing the user to widen the criteria to show > more applications. It is quite another thing to make an unilateral decision to take out an entire class that fails > to satisfy some arbitrary requirement. > > I do realize that the app installer becomes more complex, with the 'number of stars' selector, and having to make > up application data that the app itself failed to provide, but I think cost/benefit justifies that effort. > > I feel old and cranky arguing this point but the app markets for portable devices are a _counterexample_ to a > thesis that pretty metadata guarantees better application quality. At least on portable devices the old-line stuff > simply does not install so it is irrelevant; on Fedora it can be installed and would be useful to someone, if only > they can discover its existence when using the pretty, default application installer. As another data point, I just > introduced 'units' to another person that missed it in spite of being in the business of scientific > data/calculations. Fedora should make it easier, not more difficult, for people to discover such useful things. *exactly* my point and even if i do not use any GUI for install/update packages i care about because others should have the same options as i had many years ago to find their *alternative* to Windows/OSX
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