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Idea
#7566: Add option to Add/Remove... to filter out GNOME or KDE specific applications
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Written by Yaywalter the 25 Apr 08 at 04:18.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
It would be great if there were a way in the included Add/Remove... program to filter out either GNOME-specific or KDE-specific apps. It's really annoying to stumble upon an application that sounds really cool and/or useful, but then look and see it's for the desktop you don't use.
I use GNOME, and I don't want to see any of the KDE apps.
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babis79 wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 05:43
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+1 Very good idea, especially for new linux users helpful, because they do not know which are the KDE or Gnome applications. Mixing KDE and Gnome applications breaks the consistent look of ubuntu and thus the usability and easy of use of the desktop.
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shovelhead wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 06:50
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I do understand your point - but it's pointless :o) I do use Gnome, too, and I mainly use Gnome specific apps. But there ARE a few KDE apps, that somehow have become a standard (ex: K3b for CD burnig).
Those apps install perfectly in the Gnome desktop - it's Linux, Kids! Using the desktop A does not mean, that all the applications for desktop B are unavailable.
shure enough voted down
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Yaywalter wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 07:35
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Ahem, shovelhead. I understand where your coming from... but the filter would be able to be turned off and on at the user's will. So if you want your KDE apps, fine. If you want to avoid them, then it's a great feature.
Don't exactly see why you'd vote down an OPTIONAL filter that would only make things more convenient for some people, but ok.
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XVIIarcano wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 08:11
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Perhaps just adding more relevance to the already existent little icons that show up in the descriptions would do... I noticed them after some weeks of usage.
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glotz wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 11:51
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It's mostly newbies who use the add/remove so this would really help. Make it optional and on by default.
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Primož Papič wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 16:19
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Adept - the KDE add/remove has this possibility but doesn't have much more useful possibility of seeing just installed programs (comes handy if you want to remove a program)
So the best would be that adept and Synaptic would be merged into one program that would have all the good things of both of them and none of the bad.
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