[Karmic] Heads up

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Sep 24 12:19:17 UTC 2009


Andrew Farris wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 20:50 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> 
>> 3. Applications|Add/Remove has been replaced by "Ubuntu Software
>> Store".
> 
> I think it's kinda inappropriate to call it a 'software store' since
> you're not actually buying anything... It could give the wrong
> impression to new users that have constantly been told that they dont
> have to pay for anything, ubuntu is free, etc... they they log in, and
> see this 'software store' thing and think oh look...theres the catch...

Sorry, I should have posted about this here before.  There was a fairly 
lengthy discussion on the -devel list about the "Software Store", with a 
fair number of people disagreeing with the concept, but the guys making the 
decisions still seem to think it's the best name.  I think it's stupid 
myself.
-- 
derek





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