"Download & Install" vs "Repositories & Synaptic" and the need for a new URI [Was: Re: Going forward [Re: Automatix?]]

[Florian Diesch]

"Jason Taylor" <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> What's missing is a good search function that understands more than one
>> single word. Peopele want to search for "audio cd burn", "mp3 gnome" or
>> things like that. At the time only apt-cache can do this. IMHO if
>> there's an easy to use, powerful search function and an easy tom find
>> "search for softwere" menu entry people will use it as there they get
>> better results as with google.
>
> What we're saying is why not just use google?

* Not everyone has decent and cheap internet access
* With a local search function you will get better results
* IMHO users should use packages provided by their distribution whenever
  possible to avoid problems. So IMHO it's better to show them only
  Ubuntu packages when they're looking for software.
* Having so much carefully prepared packages available is a great
  feature. There's no need to hide this from the users.


   Florian
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