Ubuntu Linux
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#6350
April 2010
For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, we plan to:
- Present non-application packages in an understandable way.
- Helpfully subcategorize applications such as games, and also categorize non-application packages such as programming utilities, fonts, database software, and screensavers.
- Let you rate and review packages from within the Center, and see ratings and reviews submitted by other Ubuntu users.
- Interactive demonstration of how to launch the software you’ve just installed.
- Improve apt.ubuntu.com so that it handles more browsers, and more usefully caters for people who are not running Ubuntu when they follow the link.
October 2010
For Ubuntu 10.10, we plan to:
- Provide the ability to purchase software from within the Center.
- Make Ubuntu Software Center a viable alternative to Synaptic, allowing the same fine-grained package control and handling of error cases.
- Establish and convey a trust level for software in PPAs, and let you easily add PPAs within the Center.
April 2011
For Ubuntu 11.04, we plan to:
- Improve sharing and tracking of software within the Center. For example:
- Overviews of installed software by license, cost, or maintenance timetable.
- Discovering software by what your friends have installed.
- Downloading a package once for installing on many computers.
- Incorporating AptOnCD.
- A visible history of past installations/removals/purchases, including the ability to undo specific changes.
- Investigate and, if appropriate, implement specialized interfaces for browsing and installing particular classes of package (fonts, screensavers, etc).