OneConf and Software Center

[Didier Roche]

On mer., 2010-06-30 at 18:06 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> Fair enough. With help from David Siegel, I've now completed a spec for
> integrating this into Ubuntu Software Center.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#oneconf>
> 
> I've specified the bare minimum for the feature to be useful, so you can
> get it done for Maverick. If you get that much done and polished with
> time to spare, let me know and I'll start adding items from the "Future
> work" list.

Hey Matthew, thanks for you work there.

I just see some missing remarks and want to clarify them with you:
- we just list there "items that aren't on this computer", but we can
know as well additional software that has been removed on the remote
compute and that are still there. Is it out of scope now?
If we want to still get it from a design point of view, we can add a "2
items that are installed here, but not on David's Netbook" with a Remove
all button.
- I'm not clear about what "other items" should contain to be honest :)
- for item not available, we can say from which repository they were
found. Will it be insane to tell something like "you can add <…>
software source to be able to sync that software"
- What "Install All" is doing? Is it only installing applications or
applications and technical items? there was some use case when I want to
be able to sync on my netbook all my applications but not technical
item.
We can maybe change the label to "install all including technical
items" (or a better label, of course), when the user click on 1417 other
technical items to show that the install all changed?

I've from this morning the plugin system in USC from mvo (thanks!), the
design is nearly done, let's rock on OneConf now :)

Thanks again,
Didier