Den 2015-09-28 kl. 14:55, skrev Jörn Schönyan: > 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! >
Good luck Jörn and Rafael :-) I'm looking forward to your new and improved tool. By the way, there is already Lubuntu Core ;-) Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
