[packagekit] New GUI

[Andres Vargas - zodman]

agreed with Richard!!!!!

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Jean Hubbard<jean_p57 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > So i am rather
> > ticked that it has been dropped after being told 'next release' a few
> times
> > and being marked as in development for so long all for something they
> > decided to go at alone namely being AppCenter.
>
> Well, they can do what they want, but I think it's shame they didn't
> work with the other distros on this.
>
> > Now 90% of the people from all forums that do appose or are not to happy
> > with PK seem to have issues with the GUI and the functionality there of.
>
> You know that 90% of all statistics are made up, right? :-)
>
> > What i propose is just one entry, a single entry under System->Admin
> called
> > Packagekit or something like that. You click on that and this pops up: v
>
> What's the use case? I must admit that I quite like the "deep
> integration" of PackageKit into the desktop, and I think exposing it
> as one giant application detracts from the fact it's a framework for
> other applications use.
>
> > If you guys would like further feedback on this i could start a Poll in
> all
> > the Forums and see how that goes and then lastly, unfortunately i have no
> > experience coding and therefore would be not able to contribute to this
> in
> > that way but would certainly be onboard to testing it.
>
> Being honest, I don't think a poll would work. You might get a few
> people to agree, but unless there are developers there wanting to make
> an AppCenter clone I don't think it work.
>
> If you're going to think about UI (and it's great that you've started
> btw) have a look at these people:
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html and think about how they
> want to get a specific task done. People don't sit down and "manage
> packages" they want to draw a cartoon, print a docuemnt, or play a
> media file. Package management is just the bit that gets in the way.
>
> Richard.
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