Ubuntu Software Center future

[David Raphaël]

Hi everyone!
With the recent development of Unity8, I have noticed that the Ubuntu Software Center is becoming an App Store equivalent, which I think is fine. For me, the Ubuntu Software Center should focus on applications and not on packages.

However, I am a bit concerned about package management and I think that Ubuntu should develop (or improve) its own package management system in order for the distribution to be more administrators friendly. I know there already exist synaptic or aptitude, but those are not included by default in the distribution and I read somewhere that Canonical wanted only one tool by default.

What about having two main sections in the Ubuntu Software Center: one for the applications (related to apps.ubuntu.com with icons, screenshots as well as users comments for each entry) and one for the packages (related to packages.ubuntu.com with a simple but powerful presentation like synaptic)?

I do not really know what are the actual plans of Canonical but I really think splitting the business part (applications) from the traditional open source part (packages) would remove any ambiguity and be profitable for everyone. The actual Ubuntu Software Center is trying to be in the middle of those two approaches, which results in a messy software (in my opinion).

What do you think?

Cheers,
Raphaël


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