[maemo-developers] AM features (was Re: Application Manager, debtags and Tracker)

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

> Can you please come up with a basic community plan for the Fremantle
> application manager by November 10th? Please summarize your feature
> proposals and project expectations e.g. at
> http://wiki.maemo.org/User:GeneralAntilles/Improving_the_Application_manager


Well, lacking anything particularly concrete UI-wise from Nokia bout  
Fremantle, it's hard to come up with a unified, specific plan.  
Especially as it seems a lot of the standing UI paradigms will be  
either drastically altered or done away with entirely. The base we'd  
be working from on that page also predates the Summit announcements,  
and isn't particularly ambitious (I was thinking more in terms of  
"what I'd realistically like to see in the Diablo Application Manager,  
keeping in mind Nokia's usual resistance to changes like these" and  
not "My kickass vision for the perfect Application Manager").

That said, I think we can outline a few of the more general ideas that  
we would like to see for Fremantle. Tracker meta-data integration for  
searching with debtags, etc; AppStore-like integration with Downloads  
that includes, ratings, comments and "Fresh" packages; change the  
package info dialog from a dialog to a whole screen that will contain  
Downloads integration, screenshots, descriptions, etc (think something  
along the lines of how AppStore or Rhapsody does it); multiple  
category views (tree, grid, etc). Those sorts of things.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair