Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

[ajmctaggart]

Great Stuff Guys!  Thank you for never ceasing to help me remember why this
is the distro for me :)

A couple of questions,

1)  Will this Central locations simply encourage Companies like Google,
Yahoo/Zimbra, etc.  to have their .deb packages or self
extracting/installing packages maintained in this center?  Or will it
actually manage the software regardless of how it has been installed?

2)  Do any of the Devs have experience with Cydia?  It is the jailbroken
AppStore for the iPhone, using .debs, I believe.  The reason I ask is
because I really enjoy the way it has broken down software to be searchable
by "Internet," or "Utilities," and also by the acutal repository keeper,
say, "Canonical," "Google," etc; so that Picasa would be in the categories,
"Google," and in "Photo/Video," for example. Zimbra would be in "Yahoo," and
also in "Messaging."  Those examples kind of depend on my first question
though.  Better to use the example of VLC being in "Video Lan" and in
"Photo/Video."

Where would a more formal suggestion (including some basic mockups) be best
placed in the wiki?


Thanks,
Anthony
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Robbie Williamson <robbie at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On 08/27/2009 02:20 PM, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Przemek
> > Kulczycki<przemekkulczycki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew East<mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Matthew,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas<mpt at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> Now, AppCenter has a brand name: the Ubuntu Software Store.
> >>>> <http://launchpad.net/software-store>
> >>>> And it has a package in Ubuntu Karmic: software-store.
> >>>> <http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-store>
> >>> Looking forward to trying this. I had a quick browse through the wiki
> >>> page but couldn't find any discussion about the name, so here goes.
> >>>
> >>> Doesn't "store" imply that the user will be paying for the software? I
> >>> really liked "center".
> >> Only for the Americans I guess :)
> >> Those who learned British English will understand store as a
> warehouse/stock.
> >
> > Well, I don't know any free warehouses either... But I'm British, and
> > my primary understanding of a "store" is an online or physical place
> > where I can purchase things. Anyhow, Ubuntu's primary locale is US
> > English, so I think a discussion of the name should proceed on the
> > basis that the name should work in US English.
> >
> > I can see from the spec (and LP answer 81103) that it will be possible
> > to purchase software from this app in the future, but it will also be
> > possible to get software for free there, and for that reason I think a
> > neutral name that fits both is preferable.
> >
> I agree...I personally liked App Center, but could be persuaded to like
> maybe
> Ubuntu Software Center.  I think most users would interpret "Store" as a
> place
> to buy apps.
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