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[Roman Zonov <roman2861@xxxxxxxxx>]

Snappy packages? And what will be with Click? And why you are doing this?

12.07.2015, 13:38, "sturmflut" <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hey Marcin,
>
> I've been talking to the store developers about this, and the current
> situation is the following (and please correct me if I got it wrong):
>
> Ubuntu on phones/tablets still uses Click packages, but in a couple of
> months everything will be changed to Snappy. So all the development work
> goes into Snappy and the Snappy Store Scope. The Click Store Scope will
> not see many updates, and the Snappy Store Scope will be identical to
> the current Click Store Scope in the beginning.
>
> So don't expect any major changes to the whole store experience on your
> phone/tablet until the end of the year.
>
> In the meantime you can file a bug report with your ideas at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scope-click/…; and
> flag it as "Wishlist". I don't currently have the time to go through all
> the store-related Mailing List discussions and check if there are
> already bug reports open for all issues.
>
> cheers,
>
> Simon
>
> On 07/08/2015 12:52 AM, Marcin GTriderXC.tk wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
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