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[Gary Lasker <gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everybody,

See notes in-line.

On 06/13/2011 11:01 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the UDS session on UI enhancements
> <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-software-center-ui>,
> because I was pulled into a boring but important meeting about
> indicators at the last minute.
> 
> I really like most of the ideas listed there, and I'll work to
> incorporate them into the spec in the next couple of weeks. There are
> only a couple that I don't understand.
> 
> One of them is "Display the package name more prominently in the details
> view". I've just watched the video
> <http://blip.tv/ubuntu-developers/ubuntu-uds-o-budapest-enhancements-to-the-software-center-ui-and-experience-5249699>
> to hear the rationale for this.
> 
> I heard one example given to justify this, Sound Juicer. If you search
> for "sound juicer" in USC, it comes up as "Audio CD Extractor", and that
> was cited as confusing.
> 
> As Kiwinote suggested at the time, this is a bug in the application. The
> application interface and associated Web sites refer to it as "Sound
> Juicer", so the .desktop file should too. I've now reported this.
> <http://launchpad.net/bugs/796646>
> 
> So, I don't think we should make the package name more prominent based
> on that example. In comparison, Apple's various App Stores, the Android
> Market, and the Blackberry App World don't show any equivalent to
> package names *at all*.

Yes, agreed. Probably this item shouldn't have been made a work item as
I notice it didn't even make it into the session notes.

> 
> What perhaps we could do is change the current presentation of the
> package name from, for example, "18.1.1-0ubuntu1 (deja-dup)" to
> "deja-dup 18.1.1-0ubuntu1". That would at least be more convenient for
> copying and pasting (e.g. when reporting bugs or answering tech support
> questions).

Sounds good and done. We differed from the spec here anyway.

> 
> Other than that, I propose that we remove this work item. Yay? Nay?
> 

Yay from me, I'm in total agreement. I don't think I can just remove the
work item because of how we track them on the desktop team, but I will
mark it done based on the above small change.

Thanks mpt!
Gary

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