Subhan Allah ... a good idea ... because during this time many are using linux other than ubuntu and was wondering if I can make linux as Sabily. In fact they really want it (Sabily Operating System) ...
And actually, I want to help, but I'm not a geek. So can only spread Sabily participate in the community, especially the Moslem in Indonesia. 2010/8/26, Abdelmonam Kouka <abdelmonam.ko...@gmail.com>: > Assalamo alaykom, > > After some real situations I see, and after reviews on Sabily done by other > persons (not from sabily team) I can see some redundant issues, I have a new > idea to improve Sabily project and solve some of these problems. > First of all, I would like to ask some questions that this new idea has the > answers: > - When we add a new software into Sabily project (like Alfanous in next few > days) how users can know about it --> they should go to Synaptic and see > what new software exist for the target Sabily PPA --> not really a good > idea: simple users won't do that and advanced users has no time to take a > look each period on that! > - When someone install one or many software powered by Sabily in their > minimal version how can he know that there is many other addons? let's take > an example Zekr, how the user will know that Sabily provide translation > packages ready for install? how he will know that there is offline > recitations of The Holy Quran powered by Sabily? (BTW here we should create > packages for recitations -a package for each recitation- and put them under > www.sabily.org/repository or something like that since they will have a big > size so perhaps launchpad will refuse them). > - How the user that install the small version or the one who will convert an > existing ubuntu into Sabily will know that there is another repository other > than Sabily PPA (the repository of our brother foxoman providing Fsool, > Rejall and Arabeyes Quamoos)? and if we will add a new external repository > how users will know that? > - How a reviewer will know all Sabily sub-projects with their definitions > (descriptions)? > .... > > Well what I propose here is to create what I called "Sabily Software Center" > (we can change the name after if you like, it is not the matter now), it > will be something like ubuntu software center (see attachment #1). I know > that using ubutnu software center we can see software that exists under > Sabily PPA (see attachment #5) but this is not what I mean, in fact there is > many differences between that and the one in my mind: > 1- Going to ubuntu software centre and check Sabily PPA repository to see > what exists there is not an intuitive task for simple user. > 2- This menu contain many software that personally I don't know why they are > there like "iagno-server"! > 3- This menu don't show dependencies: as I said before translation packages > and recitation ones should be related to Zekr package and accessed from it. > 4- This software has no "new software added" notifications. > > So to capitalize what I mean, Sabily Software centre should: > 1- give the user a list of software powered by Sabily with "remove" button > for installed ones (see attachment #2) and "install" button for non > installed ones (see attachment #3) and "more infos" button that give a short > description of the software (see attachment #4). > 2- for software that have related addons/data (like > Zekr+translations+recitations, Thawab+books, Muallim+data...) Sabily > Software Centre should link these software packages to their data/addons > packages so user can detect them in easy manner and decide to install them > or not. > 3- has a notification addons so when a new software is added into one Sabily > repositories (official or external one) user should have a notification for > that (something like update manager but not for update, just for new > software). > 4- This software will add Sabily repositories (official PPA and external > ones) into Software list so user won't need to do this task, just he > installed Sabily Software Centre and then he can start installing sabily > software without need to run any additional command, all using a simple and > intuitive GUI). and each time we have a new repository all what we need is > to release a new version of Sabily Software Centre nad the user will receive > an update notification like any other update and all what he need is to run > it and the new repository will be added into his software list without that > he need to do that. > 5- This software should be under GPL license so we can put it under ubuntu > official repository and so in our installation page we will not mention any > command for installing/upgrading Sabily, just we will say install Sabily > Software Centre and then use it to install Sabily and we provide some > screenshot for that: it will encourage people to install Sabily (instead of > saying open terminal, add PPA, apt-get install sabily....). > 6- Sabily Software Centre will be shown under Islamic Software so it will be > accessed in an easy manner by any new user, and so any one can see directly > (from the software list) what is sabily and what he would like to install). > 7- In the future perhaps we can release a "Sabily Software Centre" for each > Linux distro and so we will not have Sabily as "ubuntu Muslim edition" but > as "Linux Muslim Edition" and for each distro we will put the exact > repository (most of our software have an rpm version, so it will be easy to > make Sabily on any deb/rpm based distro using this concept). > > Well this is what I have in mind in this moment, we can extend this idea > after, any proposition is welcome. > > For this idea I create this project in launchpad: > https://launchpad.net/sabily-software-centre > I don't know if I have time to develop it or not (till now I proposed three > projects, I create them on launchpad but I did not start developing any one > of them because a lack of time), if someone like the idea and have some time > to start this project he is more than welcome :) > > We can find new idea like this new one for ubutnu software centre: > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/where-is-it-ubuntu-1010-software-centre.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29&utm_content=FaceBook<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/where-is-it-ubuntu-1010-software-centre.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg%21+Ubuntu%21%29&utm_content=FaceBook> > which is useful for software that are not installed under Islamic Software > like (Fsool, Rejall, Arabeyes Qamoos, nanny...). > > Another time any idea is welcome, any developer is more than welcome > > Assalamo alaykom > > -- > عبد المنعم كوكة > Abdelmonam Kouka > http://sabily-guru.blogspot.com/ > http://geek-tounsi.blogspot.com/ > -- Cak Anas http://www.sabily-id.org milis: http://groups.google.co.id/group/komunitas-gnulinux-sabily-indonesia Gunakan GNU/Linux Sabily OS, legal dan halal.. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team Post to : sabily.team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
