Use a whitelist
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppCenter |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
elementary UX | ||
Bug Description
We should use a whitelist for the apps that appear in AppCenter. This could just be something as simple as a plain text file we maintain and update alongside the app.
Apps that aren't on the whitelist could possibly be pulled up via an exact-package-name search and could live under some semi-obfuscated location on other results pages. Kind of how Ubuntu Software Center hides its "technical results" by default. This gives us the best of both worlds: we don't actively advertise shitty apps, but users who know about them or *really* want to install them can still do so.
We could consider showing some sort of disclaimer that the non-whitelisted apps are not recommended or checked by elementary and may not provide the best desktop experience.
As a side note, we'll need to implement some sort of review procedure for putting apps on the whitelist.
| Changed in appcenter: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| milestone: | none → 0.2 |
| Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: needs-design |
| Changed in appcenter: | |
| assignee: | nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design) |
| Jacob Parker (jacobparker1992) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in appcenter: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
We need a design/decision for how to expose non-whitelisted apps.