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Idea #2656: Easy application uninstall

Written by Warlon the 3 Mar 08 at 06:41. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Add an "uninstall this application" option to the context menu when right clicking some applications icon in the applications menu. This would then open a "These packages will be uninstalled" -dialog.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2656
Written by Warlon the 3 Mar 08 at 06:41.
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Solution #2: Nautilus plug-in or gconf setting for right-click option
Written by cheesehead the 9 Mar 09 at 17:56.
Easy to add or activate, easy to remove or deactivate.
Lots of people like right-click uninstall, and lots of people don't.

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x_we12 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 08:51
surpasses the Add/Remove function. Ubuntu is great because the applications are managed at a central place. This idea would destroy the idea of a central application manager.

ddimaio wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 13:35
I agree with x_we12. I always found ridiculous that Windows softwares place the uninstall icon in the start menu! The menu becomes a mess!

r00tzz wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:50
apt-get remove??

BungaMan wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 12:46
I wouldn't mind this option, it is a quick way to get rid of applications. What are the other options?

click click synaptic click search program ... wait while updating database .... click to remove .. click apply

while it could be right click .. click remove .. click apply

That central place is still there. Otherwise, fear the command line as it also provides a direct way to remove the program! Not that the command line is an option... you have to know the exact naming of the application.

+1 for me, good suggestion Warlon

bgfeldm wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 01:25
this is not good for a system that has administrators and users. Especially since in debian and ubuntu users have user permissions and only receive admin permissions after performing su or sudu.

jojoman02 wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 05:49
Good Idea: Easy Uninstall? YES
Bad Implementations: Right Click in Menu? NO

perhaps make it more visible how to install/uninstall applications in ubuntu? the check mark is ok but there must be some other way...

SoRcErEr972 wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 19:44
I don't think this surpasses the Add/Remove function because you would still need it to add programs, or to remove a set of programs easier than doing it with right click.
Actually, you can remove a program through "Add/Remove", synaptic or by command-line, i don't think the beginner understand this a "central place".
Right-clicking can lead to an easier-to-use system, it is what brings Ubuntu to more an more people, isn't it?
Could someone how "this would destroy the idea of a central manager" and how it could impact negatively any end-user?
Thanks ;)

ikajaste wrote on the 6 Jan 09 at 18:13
Whoa, really weird to see resistance to this concept. This should be a pretty simple issue: User sees a program -> user should have a shortcut to manipulating the program, right there.

Point of right clicking is "I want to do something else to/with this application than opening it", and removing the application fits perfectly to that context.

If you want to keep promoting the idea of a "central manager" (which synaptic already breaks), the remove action could bring up a custom dialog that has the same UI style as Add/Remove, and a button for opening the full Add/Remove interface. I agree it's a good usability guideline to have a consistent system, but I'd say providing direct manipulation is a much stronger usability guideline. And as I expailned, you can even have both!

So yeah, +1 from me.

doctormo wrote on the 3 Mar 09 at 13:41
The first few comments seem to have missed the point a bit, it's a Context Menu, not a menu item. You right click on the item.

This goes back to the whole noun vs verb thing in UI design. The Applications menu is a huge list of nouns and the number of verbs currently attached to them is very small.


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