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Published: 2012-04-16 23:39:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 21136; Favourites: 84; Downloads: 172
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Doing mocks for the first version of AppCenter. That means the feature set needs to stay simple. No reviews or anything crazy yet. Just what data we get from a regular debian repository (plus screenshots).I want to have some nice looking banners to spice things up a bit, but we don't have the resources to go design a ton and we won't have the bandwidth to host them. So, the idea here is to automatically generate a nice color scheme based on the icon's colors and created banners based on a few different layout templates.
Also, in the category grid, it should dynamically resize. So if you have an ultra-wide window, it can go to 3, 4, etc columns. But if you have an ultra small window, it should shrink back to just 1 (a list basically).
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That's probably the best thing about it, is that fullscreen mode is basically just a minimalist version of old Tweetdeck. That's also the Windows version, I think the Linux one just has different window controls. All versions have the option for custom colour setup too. Very neat.
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Probably the best one I've seen is an Adobe Air based one similar to Hotot but with a cleaner UI called Destroy Twitter, it even has a neat "away" button that pauses your streams. I can't understand why nobody else offers such an obviously useful feature.
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The stars and number of reviews feel like they're floating in awkward space below the install button. I don't have a suggestion as to where they out to go, but they feel nebulous where they are now. Perhaps simply tightening up the leading between all the elements on the right would help?
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Adjusted the alignment a bit. How about now?
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They're lined up with the base of the text that's on the left.
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Dan, please tell me elementary will be more sensible than Ubuntu and include themes/icon sets, etc in the AppCentre, whenever that'll be made?
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well tbh those aren't really apps. Maybe we could have a dconf switch to show *all* packages, but I think it'd default to just only showing actual apps.
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Why make it an "AppCentre" at all? I'd much rather see a department store of everything cool. People will find it easier (and safer) to get all their applications, addons, themes, knickknacks from a curated hub rather than scouring the internet.
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I think most people aren't really interested in add ons/themes/libraries/etc. Most people expect the OS to already be beautiful and just work
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Well, I politely disagree. The explosion of themes on Google Chrome, etc only go to show that if you make customisation easy for even the densest users, people will love it. Besides, there's no reason why the OS can't be beautiful out of the box and have themes available as well.
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Google Chrome is not an Operating System though.
And themes WILL be available. You just have to download them yourself.
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No reviews. Look at what's become of reviews on Apple's App Store.
But if you're going to use a rating system at all, I'd make it simple: a list of "reactions" or "comments" that are limited in length and have a thumbs up or down attached.
That's really all reviews are anyway, because people will give out extreme ratings and write a sentence-long review.
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I don't agree, when I need an application for a specific purpose, I test several apps. There are some that are good, but lack some features, how would you rate it? With a thumb down? Maybe a thumb up? Since it's not the best, and it's not bad actually, I would simply not rate it; that situation would be a total mess, the results would not correspond to the reality.
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Show percent up? Like 91% 
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The problem is not the way the results are shown. What I mean is that the user needs an advanced rating system, not just "I like it" and "I don't like it": what a sensible and meaningful rating system has to be is a quantitative system, not a qualitative one.
The numerical rating system has been used for a long time and it does fulfill its mission.
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IMHO some more information should be displayed:
- version of the software
- link to developer website
- size of installed package
How do you think about that?
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Maybe also addons,
like in Ubuntu
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is the screenshot clickable? Also, what does the blue button in addition to installing the application?
looks nice.
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Yea I would assume so 
The dropdown would contain items like "Donate", "Gift" (for paid apps), etc
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Probably queue the app, share to a friend, or even save for wishlist or something.
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