Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 11, 2005 11:45 AM
Last I checked, it did not. Why should users go wading through an ocean of small CLI utilities, libs and services to find an application like Kino or Amarok?
Notice that Xandros and Linspire are a part of the DCC, and the former has been assigned the technology lead. The Xandros Networks utility is superior to Synaptic in that it defaults to a mode where only apps and patches selected by the distro maintainer are displayed (usually with a familiar icon to accompany the description). It has an "expert mode" that functions not unlike Synaptic however, where all the nuts-and-bolts are visible. XN also doesn't connect to "Debian Universe" by default, although this is easily enabled in preferences with a couple of mouse clicks. It has a default status page on startup that higlights newly-available apps and patches.
If DCC goes as far as producing a GUI package manager, it should have the above functionality. Average users (and even advanced ones from Windows and Mac platforms) must be able to easily get a handle on applications (and services for admins), because those are what drive widespread adoption of an OS.
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Does Synaptic even know what an 'application' is?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 11, 2005 11:45 AMNotice that Xandros and Linspire are a part of the DCC, and the former has been assigned the technology lead. The Xandros Networks utility is superior to Synaptic in that it defaults to a mode where only apps and patches selected by the distro maintainer are displayed (usually with a familiar icon to accompany the description). It has an "expert mode" that functions not unlike Synaptic however, where all the nuts-and-bolts are visible. XN also doesn't connect to "Debian Universe" by default, although this is easily enabled in preferences with a couple of mouse clicks. It has a default status page on startup that higlights newly-available apps and patches.
If DCC goes as far as producing a GUI package manager, it should have the above functionality. Average users (and even advanced ones from Windows and Mac platforms) must be able to easily get a handle on applications (and services for admins), because those are what drive widespread adoption of an OS.
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