http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9720/
I will be great if more informations about the program we're looking can be displayed in the bottom frame.

These informations can stored in an online database, which contains the latest informations about the program.

For example, when we click on one program in "Add/remove program", we can see some extra info coming from the web :

- Brief Description of the program (already exists)
- Link to the developer's website
- Big button "Install this program (queue)"
- Rating (already exists)
- Latest available version of the program
- What's new in this version (multi-language)
- link "post a bug" relative to this program (launchpad or mail to developer's mailbox)
- post an idea relative to this program (brainstorm)
- Gallery of screenshots (to be discussed)

These informations could be grabbed from a wiki which represents the perfect non-technical documentation that all newbie could read first.

ps : this was already discussed in the comments of idea brainstorm n°9685 ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9685/ )

pps : For those who knows the iphone, it's similar to the "more info" tab when you install a program. It's only grabbing texts and screenshots from the developer's page.

[217 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #9720


]]> en-us Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:11:43 +0000 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:46:18 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9720/
The post a bug button, however, is a decent idea.

A "what's new" would be nice, as long as it doesn't fill a whole page with minor changes so that the add/remove window becomes a mess.

I don't really know how much I want brainstorm to get flooded with posts like "Make Amarok's visualizations better" or "add more difficulty levels to game X", so I don't think I agree with adding a link to brainstorm.

Screenshots aren't a bad idea, as long as they don't add too much time to the opening of the add/remove window and don't take up too much hard drive space if that route is chosen.

So +1, but it's already half-implemented, and the idea needs refining, in my opinion.]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:59:58 +0000
For the screenshots, if they are stored on the net, they will only be downloaded when a program is selected, and thus it will not interfere with the loading af "add/remove program"]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:20:02 +0000 * http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7120/]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:38:58 +0000
I don't know how rating works today, but that should be community-driven. A website would allow registered ubuntu users to vote on better apps, and gnome-app-manager/adept would update from the web as needed.

Rating could be somehow divided into "Distribution Rating" and "User Rating". I see lots of Gnome apps with a 5-star rating only because they are Gnome apps, not because they are good.

An option to allow the community to take care or suggest descriptions and etc would solve lots of problems.

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Program descriptions can frequently be improved. I especially abhor the descriptions which read something along the lines of "foo is an improved bar. It has optimized blather, and more options." That works ok for those people who are familiar with 'foo' - but most of us are not. For many of us, the section the utility is in tells us more about the program than the description.

Aptitude should also receive some added info love - it likewise does not show ratings, it doesn't always get changelog files, etc.]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:00:36 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/103/]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:52 +0000