[Bug 976071] [NEW] Muon Software Center needs "technical items" option

[SeijiSensei]

Public bug reported:

Kubuntu 12.04b2

The division of Muon into separate "Package Manager" and "Software
Center" applications creates unnecessary confusion for experienced
users.  This problem came to my attention when responding to a thread at
UbuntuForums from someone trying to locate the NFS client.  Searching
the Software Center for "nfs" brings up only a Java-based FTP client
with no ability to ferret out "nfs-common" or "nfs-kernel-server".
Opening a thread at the forums about this made it clear that the KDE
implementation of Ubuntu's Software Center application leaves out an
important feature.  The Ubuntu application offers an option to browse
additional "technical items" from the repositories as well as the
limited offerings displayed in the list from Software Center.  I can't
find any comparable feature in KDE's implementation of this application.

There most definitely needs to be a method for browsing all applications
available from the repositories in the Software Center application, or
else it and the Package Manager application need to be merged somehow.
As it stands now, experienced users like me will need to bounce back and
forth between the SC and PM applications to find a needed package.

For further information, see this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1954120

** Affects: muon (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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