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Bug #442882
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Comment 8 for bug 442882

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Ioannis Vranos (cppdeveloper) wrote on 2009-10-06: Re: [Bug 442882] Re: Software Center should not use the word "Free Software"

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:10 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> In v1, the Center doesn't show software in third-party repositories at all. In v2 it will, though, and your scenario is a useful contribution to the design of that feature. As I said, "Get Software" will likely become a section with "Free Software" and "Paid Software" subsections, but I was supposing that wouldn't happen until v3. The example of a private repository of site-licensed software, though, shows that we'd need to have subsections for v2. Something like:
> Get Software
> |– Free Software
> |– MyExample Repository
> '– Medibuntu Repository
> That way, we wouldn't be incorrectly assuming any particular non-ubuntu.com repository was "free software". I've added a reminder to the spec about this. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter?action=diff&rev2=218&rev1=217> Thanks!
>
> That leaves the suggestion of changing "Get Software" to "Available
> Software". I did consider that wording early in the design process, but
> I thought "available" was a little too vague -- people might misconstrue
> "available" as "available on my computer". That said, I plan to organize
> user testing on the navigation in general soon, and if it shows the
> wording needs changing, we'll try "Available".

OK, these sound nice to me for now. I may come back to this in the
future. :-)

An alternative design you could consider for version 2 (based on current
Synaptic/Software Sources repositories of 9.04):

The reason for that. For example, currently the "Ubuntu Software"
section, in Software Sources, contains the option "Proprietary drivers
for devices (restricted)".

I think cases like this, can't be fitted in the original suggestion
mentioned above.

Perhaps another example of this, is the "Software restricted by
copyright or legal issues (multiverse)".

Regards,

--
Ioannis Vranos

C95 / C++03 Software Developer

http://www.cpp-software.net

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:10 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> In v1, the Center doesn't show software in third-party repositories at all. In v2 it will, though, and your scenario is a useful contribution to the design of that feature. As I said, "Get Software" will likely become a section with "Free Software" and "Paid Software" subsections, but I was supposing that wouldn't happen until v3. The example of a private repository of site-licensed software, though, shows that we'd need to have subsections for v2. Something like:
>     Get Software
>     |– Free Software
>     |– MyExample Repository
>     '– Medibuntu Repository
> That way, we wouldn't be incorrectly assuming any particular non-ubuntu.com repository was "free software". I've added a reminder to the spec about this. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter?action=diff&rev2=218&rev1=217> Thanks!
> 
> That leaves the suggestion of changing "Get Software" to "Available
> Software". I did consider that wording early in the design process, but
> I thought "available" was a little too vague -- people might misconstrue
> "available" as "available on my computer". That said, I plan to organize
> user testing on the navigation in general soon, and if it shows the
> wording needs changing, we'll try "Available".