sounds great to me! i knew work was being done but didn't know how far along we were, so thanks for the update and all the hard work!
@wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-organizer On Sep 28, 2015 5:55 AM, "Jörn Schönyan" <joern.schoen...@web.de> wrote: > Hi everyone, replies inline. > > On Montag, 28. September 2015 14:18:45 CEST, Rafael Laguna wrote: > >> Hi, guys: >> >> Yes, Phill is right. Jörn and I made plans for improving the apps >> installation in Lubuntu, as well as managing PPAs. We'll have results soon. >> Jörn is working hard on it. >> > Yes - I don't have a time plan, but the new Software Center will be ready > before the release of 16.04, I guess at the end of the year we will have a > preview. The Update Manager is ready for testing, but missing 2 or 3 > features I really want to have and needs to be a bit more fail-safe, as it > wasn't tested under hard conditions (bad or no internet connections and > stuff). > >> About App Grid, it needs an Ubuntu One account that sometimes it kicks >> you out, so it's buggy. Ubuntu MATE is considering adopt it as their own >> Software Centre and dropping USC which is, in my opinion, a mistake, >> because the guys in Canonical are also improving USC for the Ubuntu Touch >> market and the forthcoming Snappy packages. >> > I've tested all the alternative software centers in the past, but not even > one satisfied me. But of course, that is only my personal opinion. > >> So I think we're in the right path. I know you don't see much "dev" >> activity lately, but believe me when I tell you we're working hard on the >> next LXQt version of Lubuntu and polishing every single detail to improve >> your desktop experience. >> > Right, I think the new software center could solve some problems we have, > make Lubuntu much easier for newcomers and it could be a core feature of > Lubuntu. All the things following now are still in the planning and there > was no real discussion about it, so this is a great moment for further > ideas and improvements, please feel free to comment and express your > thoughts about it, I would really appreciate it. > > The new software center will be in fact a more modern version of our > traditional LSC, written in Qt and with a more robust backend for > application data (for more informations, google "Appstream"). > > But I imagine a new feature to customize the Lubuntu experience for the > users needs. Some people want an office computer and they should get it. > The new software center should be able to "ask" the user what he needs: > office suite, graphics software, font managing, driver support for printers > from a specific brand or simmilar. Multimedia users may want a tool to cut > and convert videos, so they should have a nice collection of tools to > choose from. I think there are a lot of simmilar use cases. Afaik Ubuntu > MATE has a feature like this in their welcome screen. > > This would even allow us to ship a minimal (or core) version like Xubuntu > does, with only a bare desktop and very limited applications or no > applications at all, without leaving users alone in their application > choice and initial setup of their machine. Our problem being restricted to > an iso size of ~700 megabytes wouldn't hurt that much in the future. > > I hope my explanation was clear enough, feel free to ask questions about > it. > >> Cheers! >> >> Rafael Laguna >> Lubuntu Artwork Team >> >> Happy discussions and have a nice week! >
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