should discover featured apps be not installed? (was:Re: muon discover featured apps for 14.04)

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tomasz Dudzik <madsheytan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Amarok is installed by default, isn't it?
>
> Yes, which raises the question whether featured content should only be
> software that is not already installed.
>
> - The application is called discover. So, why not discover something
> that is installed?
>
> - OTOH the software is already installed. So, why not discover it via
> the menu (or documentation) (or already know about it) (or the search)
> (...)
>
> - Currently discover has a static order of featured content, meaning
> it will always display the content in the order we defined it in
> (personally I find that a bit dull, but oh well), perhaps a middle
> ground could be established where we simply stuff the key apps we ship
> with Kubuntu into the back of the list. If discover sits around idle
> for a minute or so and the user looks at it, they might see Amarok or
> Gwenview or Firefox.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> HS
>
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Hi,
I agree it could be interesting to filter out the applications that aren't
installed.

I'll add a TODO item on my list to implement it, if somebody is looking
forward to doing it, please tell me.

Aleix
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