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["Marcin GTriderXC.tk" <gtriderxc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just wanted to raise a bug bug I'm not quite sure if anybody will take me seriously so I'd like to ask You if You also see the problem. Perhaps my problem is that I'm trying to use this phone in everyday life and it is quite disappointing on every second step. In my opinion software store can't and will not work as it is on Android devices so it should be much clearer. Android apps are well advertised etc. Just imagine where are we going: turn Your Ubuntu Software Center on Your PC and try to find Your way without reading the descriptions under the names of a programs. You'll hardly find anything or You'll find but not the best solution You are looking for. I started translating Ubuntu just because of the software center. That's one of the most important things in a system which is not Windows alike with *.exe files on every second webpage.


First: I think it would be great to be able to know what are we installing: is it an app or is it a shortcut/webinterface. There are more and more scopes as well as web interfaces and apps. A few hundred more and there will be a huge mess. So please do something to let us know if the "endomondo" that we see in a store is an app as we have on Android that counts our activity with GPS or is it only an Internet interface that opens us an Endomondo webpage. There are plenty examples like this. Perhaps reorganize the icons into groups or give them some different colour background/a letter/a symbol... whatever that tells us WThell are we're gonna waste our time on.

Second thing... and You may say Android ain't any better. So let Ubuntu be the better system and let Ubuntu make the difference. What I mean now is a description! A short description as we have in Ubuntu Software Center on a PC. You can say there is no place to put a description string. I'll answer there are plenty possibilities of putting a short desription. Example? I wanted to check if I can make any use of a FM radio of my bq under ubuntu. What was I expected to write? FM? Radio? Try it!
ALL IN ALL You can think what I'm writing is not a bug. Yes it is. It is not a store that we nowadays have ladies and gentelmen! It is an app with 500 buttons that say the users nothing! There is something to improve here! Something really importatnt!
Proposition? Let for example a longer touch of the icon displays a short text above/below whatever! But if a user is looking for a... for example radio, he/she may not be given just 142567 search results with... perhaps a FM radio interface, or perhaps an Internet radio. We can not click every of 10-20-30 icons just to check if this "radio" is a plugin, online streamplayer or an analog FM radio.
Word "perhaps" is the bug in Ubuntu shop.