KUbuntu and Muon Discover

[Jonathan Thomas]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Tres Finocchiaro
<fatbuttlarry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here there's a video displaying what it does, in case you're just curious:
>> http://proli.net/meu/netrunner/muon-installer-qml-8.ogv
>
>
> Your video is very nice.  You may want to consider putting it on YouTube for
> mobile viewers as well.
>
> The interface seems to be very well thought-out. I'm a big fan of what
> Ubuntu has provided for a software manager, and Muon seems to be similar in
> a lot of ways.
>
> Room for improvement:
>
> Search relevance:
> Kalgebra is a "featured" or "advertised" product, but when you search for
> "Math", you have to scroll down quite a bit to find it.
>
> Consistency in browsing:
> In one screen you get a nice thumbnail view (afer clicking on "Eductation"),
> however when you search for "Math", you get a different style list without
> thumbnails.
>
> Install experience:
> I didn't see a demo of using Muon for installing a downloaded .deb file (I
> use this a lot for VirtualBox) but in Linux Mint this breaks for VirtualBox
> upgrades.  This experience can make or break it for the REAL audience, since
> most people on this mailing list are comfortable with dpkg and apt-get.

.deb files are handled via the QApt Deb Installer, and don't involve
Muon at all. This has been the case for Kubuntu 11.10 and up.

>
> Very fine work, and thanks for asking for feedback!
>
> -Tres
>
>
> -Tres
>
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