Code review comment for lp:~nik90/ubuntu/precise/software-center/add_quicklist

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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote :

Hi Nekhelesh!

Thanks a lot for your contribution to software-center!

Although it is pretty awesome that you want to help make software-center better, I have a few reservations about these quicklists:
- As for the 'Update Manager' quicklist - it makes me slightly uncomfortable that we would have a quicklist to an external application (ie quicklists make more sense for actions within software-center itself). Software-center doesn't have a dependency on update-manager and we don't really want to add one, which would result in broken quicklists in noncommon configurations. Furthermore availability of updates is already handled sufficiently by the system, eg 'updates available' is listed in the system/session indicator and if I'm not mistaken update-manager still automatically opens itself once in a while too.
- As for the 'Add/Edit PPA' quicklist, this is technical jargon so will confuse many people. It could be renamed to 'Software Sources' as in the software-center menu, but even so I'm not really convinced that we want to make adding untrusted software possible straight from the desktop as it messes up many installations.

Hopefully this makes a bit of sense! So in short, I myself don't really think that we should add any quicklists to software-center at this stage, but there are another few software-center developers about too, so you may still be in luck ;)

In any case I would really like to thank you for your contribution - it's always pretty cool to see people who want to help make software-center better!

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