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Idea #18729: Recommended Apps (Packages) in Add/Remove - Synaptic

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 18 December 10.
Written by woodbj the 22 Mar 09 at 01:44. Related project: Add/Remove program dialog. Status: Implemented
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In Add/Remove and/or synaptic there should be a section for recommended applications, the recommended applications could be submitted/voted in by the ubuntu community
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Selected solution (#1): Recommended Apps (Packages) in Add/Remove - Synaptic
Written by woodbj the 22 Mar 09 at 01:44.
In Add/Remove and/or synaptic there should be a section for recommended applications, the recommended applications could be submitted/voted in by the ubuntu community
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Selected solution (#2): #1 plus a little more
Written by James_Lochhead the 23 Mar 09 at 17:58.
Would be nice to have it in the Synaptic as well.

Plus, in addition to recommended application being viewed by the applications themselves they could also be viewed by category.

For example, you could have a category for Word Processor. In this category users could vote for the various applications and versions. After all, a lot of the time people are looking for applications to solve a specific problem/set of problems.

Furthermore, rather than rank applications by votes I think ranking by points would be better. Your vote would count for more points the more recently it is submitted and the more points the leading application in the category has. This would allow new programs or improved versions to quickly take their proper place (in terms of popularity) in the list, while still preserving the original votes that made the original applications popular.
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Selected solution (#3): indicator in the right side of Synaptic
Written by Shady3D the 24 Mar 09 at 05:37.
it's done already in add and remove (there is a rating beside it) but in synaptic it needs to be done.

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jeypeyy wrote on the 23 Mar 09 at 22:44
Like mintinstall would be good.

James_Lochhead wrote on the 24 Mar 09 at 20:06
The problem with #3 is that the stars are not particularly informative. They give very little information as to how popular an application is relative to another.

Endolith wrote on the 30 Mar 09 at 18:13
t's done already in add and remove (there is a rating beside it) but in synaptic it needs to be done.

The stars aren't good enough, and we should be building Synaptic's functionality into Add/Remove, not the other way around.

TnelsonD wrote on the 24 Jun 09 at 01:08
Why not have a sort of developer's list of applications for each category depending on what flavor of Ubuntu you are running?

Let's say you are using Kubuntu and you want an application that is in a category, but don't know which application works well with KDE? Then you could view applications that the developers recomended for KDE and install them, sorta like packages the developers decided would work well with Kubuntu but didn't have enough space to include them. The same could be applied to all other Ubuntu flavors.

So if you have Xubuntu and want a lightweight word processor you could just look at the list for Xubuntu under the word processor category.

This could be integrated into Add/Remove and Synaptic.

ssam wrote on the 9 Dec 10 at 12:57
recent software center has this


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