Screensavers wrongly classed as "technical items"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Users without advanced technical skills may typically want to install some sort of screensaver--for example, a photo slideshow. If they search for "screensaver" in USC, they will not find any apps for screensavers, unless they click on "Show 39 technical items." Perhaps some of these items really are "technical." Others, however, seem like they are not.
What I expect to happen: Search for "screensaver" in USC and find screensavers.
What happens: No such apps display unless you click on "Show 39 technical items."
"Themes and tweaks" would seem a sensible place to find screensavers.
If installing, for example, xscreensaver involves first uninstalling gnome-screensaver, better to include instructions on how to do this (or include an automatic option to do it) than to make a commonly desired item difficult to find by classifying it as a "technical item."
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.2ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 9 06:19:47 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-23 (15 days ago)