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Hello everyone, I saw a post regarding this before, but it was resolved however this peice of it to my knowledge is not. I have been using Ubuntu for only afew months, recently switched to KDE and love it, great job guys doing a lot better then gnome and unity.

Anyway, here is something that I hope is not a repeat thread, I apologize if it is, I am new here. KPackage is great, however there is one thing Ubuntu Software Center now has in 11.04+ that is great and we need in KDE, and that is personal reviews from people who have the software installed on their computer. If we could add that to KDE, and even go from there and make new software sortable from highest to lowest by other peoples personal reviews of that software. We would then have a edge on ubuntu's software center, and make it a lot easier on everyone by already knowing what works and what doesn't before trying it.

I think KDE Would highly benefit from this, and again I hope this is not a repeat thread.

I can't recall exactly (because I haven't looked in a while) but I'm pretty sure there is a review section. When you click on a package, and the info comes up, there's two buttons, Hide and (I think) More Information. Click on More Information and I think I've seen a comments option before.

There is an openSUSE GSOC project for porting the Ubuntu software center to packagekit.

And Muon could also implement this feature, I am sure.

The packagekit backend has the advantage that it works with any distribution (it is actually being implement as an openSUSE GSOC project), while muon only works with debian-based distribution.

It's true, Ubuntu has edge over Fedora & other distros simply because of their software center - people want to get software as quick as possible with the least amount of effort to try stuff out.

I don't use KPackage, but I think a 1-5 star rating system for things like:
- Overall (Generated)
- Usability
- Stability
...etc would be highly beneficial for KDE. I just tried Gnome 3 and it's nice, but I see so much more potential for KDE to steal away the spotlight in the coming year or two because KDE has better software and is a very tight group.

Its still early days,

but muon is gaining a new QML based interface which is worth taking a look at:
http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/muon-suite-1-4-alpha-released/

The op is using Kubuntu so I am not sure if they didn't notice or install muon software center. Or maybe they were using an earlier version but currently in 12.04 and later there is the muon software center. It has this capability. You just select your software and click on more info.

pic and blog report regarding GSOC Software Center http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/08/appstr ... apper.html

eprism: Ubuntu has edge over Fedora & other distros simply because of their software center

imho, ubuntu, kubuntu, opensuse & co. can do do whatever they want, but plz @kde neon: focus on (not only canonical) snaps and flatpaks. don't get too attached to ubuntu. it's a base for the moment, nothing else. fedora rawhide/silverblue already works with flatpaks alone (everything else runs in a container or as layered package - and it doesn't take much classical packages). time for a change. discover delivers snaps and flatpaks. that should be enough and is a solid basis for the future.

against tens of dependencies, old linux structures and a system that keeps getting further and further and more and more close to chaos, instead of remaining almost the (stable) system it was at the beginning.

marginal note: especially after the total opensuse - failure i linked to in another thread and the microsoft/ubuntu rumors & the ubuntu - store - telemetry with their proprietary apps, you should seriously think about this : kde-neon should become completely independent. with their own "rock-solid-base". yep, it should be your own distro. other distros will always interfere and disrupt the progress. you will see it in the near future. opensuse jumps off of kde (imho fortunately) anyway - another rumor.

you could split up the project. you provide them what you always provide and have your own distro: and you are (really) free (but it needs more resources).

but i speak with myself in this forum. well, you will see this necessity of a "split". sooner or later. kde is too valuable.

I can't recall exactly (because I haven't looked in a while) but I'm pretty sure there is a review section. When you click on a package, and the info comes up, there's two buttons, Hide and (I think) More Information. Click on More Information and I think I've seen a comments option before.

- John
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