Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

[Luya Tshimbalanga <luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/01/15 04:21 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:

Well, I was really surprised that developers are considered a target audience here. GNOME Software *might* be considered good enough for normal users, but its far from usable for a developer; even a developer who don't want to touch the terminal. Actually, it is *terrible* for such a developer. Why?

From what I understand, Gnome Software is intended for front-end applications only.

1. He search for "C++" and .... (I doubt that it tries to interpret it as a regular _expression_ or something. Probably it thinks that the user is an idiot and removes "+" signs on behalf of him).

DevAssistant application available by default on Fedora Workstation is designed for that purpose.

2. He has installed Eclipse + CDT and hopefully he can compile his C++ programs with GCC. Now, he learns about Clang and would like to try it.

Clang is a compiler that be installed as an add-ons for Eclipse. That is very much an request of enhancement for IDEs installation in Gnome Software.

GNOME Software is not that useful for a developer. As Rechard himself said, he'll need a package manager anyway. So, If Workstation product really targets developers, specially the ones who don't want to use terminal, it MUST include a graphical package manager.

There are developers unaware of the concept of package manager which does not help. Gnome Software is actually useful once the add-ons functionality is fully expanded on applications. Works need to be done allowing a seamless integration.  

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