Comment 3 for bug 682361

As far as implementing this as part of the software-center plugin, the coding would be easy, but I don't think the behavior would be ideal because the software center plugin would have to display installed apps as well as new apps. I don't think this would look good because a cardapio search for an app would turn up two results: one in the applications section and one in the software center section.

As mentioned in the blueprint, coding this feature for multiple distros might be difficult. I know python-apt seems pretty simple and would work on all debian based distros, but I am not sure about a python packagekit interface.

I hate to be a downer, but my vote is "no." I don't think this feature would be very useful and in my opinion it might make the menu too crowded whenever the user is searching. That is one reason I'm not a big fan of Mint-menu