http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9685/ It would be very nice to see the features of the program in a screenshot. Then you can better decide if you want this program or use an other.

Additional pictures could be used to show a foto of the development team or something similar.

And if that is realized it could be possible to build tutorial videos into the debs to see in synaptic how cou can use the program.


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]]> en-us Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:12:22 +0000 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:19:55 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9685/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:00:27 +0000 This is what project websites are for. If you want more information than the Synaptic description provides, go to their website.]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:03:13 +0000 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:28:22 +0000
+1.

Getting screenshots off a project website is silly, and in some cases, its a 5 step procedure just to access them]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:51:41 +0000
But may be in another tab like 'More information about the package'...]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:01:32 +0000
But the "Add/remove programs", which is really more for the big public should be more and more attractive with screenshots and demonstration, linked with the project page

This would increase the information in the bottom frame in the "add=remove programs" and provide more eye-candy info.

Instead of this, synaptic offers access to program and librairies which do not have GUI, so there will be no screenshot at all for these "programs"]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:45:20 +0000 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:23:04 +0000 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:41:52 +0000 great idea

I agree with svergeylen

I like this idea, but it only makes sense for graphical programs
this would only be benificial for gnome-app-install and adept
synaptic doesnt really need this]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:40:03 +0000
a screenschot on every package ...i think it would slow things down.


]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:58 +0000
When ubuntu reaches maturity it will include software for all purposes in a default installation... making a complete operating system... then there wont be need for installing individual applications... the user just needs to tell what software he prefers and the system will only update those softwares and ofcourse security updates...

That is when repository based installation will take over windows method of installation ...click and run..]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:08:37 +0000
Instead, there would be just a way for APT to lookup screenshots, so they could be shown.


And ubuntu will never include software for all purposes in the default install. For starters, my car PC requires programs to access the cars ECU and such (OBD2 link). It would be silly to add that by default. ]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:58:01 +0000 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:35:32 +0000 I agree with your opinion not to put the screenshots in the repo's or even worse on the livecd.
But the information could be loaded from the internet (webservice or something like that) as soon as the tab "more information about this package" is opened.]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:45:47 +0000 But... How to load this information? Store screenshots in package cache or .desktop files is not good idea.
I think Canonical should create software.ubuntu.com site with descriptions, translated descriptions, screenshots and comments. gnome-app-install should load this information from site or integrate to firefox "apt plugin" to provide "One Click Install" from web sites.]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:26:06 +0000 ]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:17:28 +0000
It would be very difficult to implement this at the raw package level. It would mean going through every single package, adding a non-standard field to the packages control file and having a massive delta between Debian.

This would mean that it would be impossible to directly sync packages from Debian (like what happens currently) so every new upstream in Debian would have to be hand merged, which is a massive overhead of work for us developers.
]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:15:03 +0000
All you need to do is set up a seperate database, and synaptic can search the database like: http://pornage.ubuntu.com/package?request=screenshots&packagename=grub2&version=2.2.2.2&repo=official

]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:39:23 +0000 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:22:47 +0000 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:00:49 +0000 http://screenshots.debian.net/packages

That is really cool....]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:19:55 +0000