Software Center Request

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Hi John

John Baer wrote on 04/03/10 19:00:
>...
> My request - is there a way to organize the packages residing in the
> Ubuntu repositories which are designed to customize/change/enhance the
> Ubuntu desktop so they may be easily located within Software Center?
>
> For example, if I type the word "themes" as my search criteria the
> package "community-themes" and others would be presented.
>
> Would an appropriately titled 12th department add value?  The titles
> "Customizations" or "Artwork" come to mind.
>...

Ubuntu Software Center 2.0 has a "Themes & Tweaks" department.
Unfortunately it doesn't have a subsection for individual themes yet,
because there is no way for USC to distinguish them from other packages.
We can distinguish icon themes because they have package names ending in
"-icon-theme", but (as far as I know) there's no equivalent way to
distinguish GTK or Metacity theme packages.

Probably the way to fix this would be to (1) implement debtags support
in Launchpad <http://launchpad.net/bugs/57418>, (2) ensure that each
theme package in Ubuntu has the appropriate debtag, and (3) use that
debtag to add a new subsection in USC.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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