2012/2/21 Sergio Spinatelli <spinatelli.sergio@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:spinatelli.sergio@xxxxxxxxx>>
Cool! Is there already a LP page to check out? :)
Sergio, I beleive it's https://launchpad.net/lubuntu-software-center
project,
https://code.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-software-center-team/lubuntu-software-center/vala-port
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-software-center-team/lubuntu-software-center/vala-port>
branch.
Stephen, it's always great to hear about collaboration opportunities!
I have to admit I haven't tried Lubuntu Software Center yet, but I
heard good things about it. I'm not in a position to reply on behalf
of the project, but having a common core sounds awesome even if we'll
have to build a different UI atop of it. It's the lack of a good core
that prevented us from doing any SofwareCenter-related work.
Well, if i don't misunderstand, you are looking for a
elementary-styled software center.
Well, it's not about styling really, it's more about behavioral
consistency and sane user experience design. Judging by the
screenshots, your approach to user experience plays rather well with
ours, so I don't expect any big UX design dissidence.
When it comes to UI code, for sure we will want to share many widgets
(AppMenu, filterbar, "no relevant items found" screen, etc) with other
elementary applications using our GTK widgets library called Granite.
This might conflict with sharing code between "flavors" of the
Software Center, but in my opinion those widgets work well in any DE
and, since Granite should be present in Ubuntu Precise universe
repository, I can't see any obstacles to adopting Granite in Lubuntu
flavor too. But that, of course, is entirely up to you.
I hear you ported the Center to PackageKit recently, that sounds
great! I wonder if you still use AptDaemon alongside it or Ubuntu
finally managed to bridge PackageKit interfaces to AptDaemon in a sane
way. But that's my idle curiosity, either way should be fine for us
for the time being :)
Cheers,
--
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
elementary OS integrator
