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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Wednesday 24 August 2011 à 23:27 +0200, Stefano a écrit :
> new branch and new fats-search engine for the Lubuntu Software Center,
> of course is still incomplete, hope will be ready for 12.04.
> get the branch: bzr branch lp:lubuntu-software-center 

Thank you for the update. It starts to be interesting and useful :)

Just some comments :
- software-center is beginning to move to packagekit backend, instead of
the aptdaemon one. You should probably have a look at it if you want to
to do more complex operations with the package manager. Fortunately, the
concepts of aptdaemon and packagekit are the same, it should not block
your UI or the way your software-center behave.

- 1 feature that IMO a software-center must have, is the ability to show
only "real" applications, not the list of all packages. As far as I
know, it's not implemented in packagekit yet. 1 solution, is to parse
the directory /usr/share/app-install/desktop/, which contain all the
applications on Ubuntu repository (each .desktop file represent 1
application).

Also, you will need at some point a proper build system, translation
support etc .. but it can be added later.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne