Thanks for your suggestions. The first suggestion is already implemented: USC does allow installing software via PPA. If you choose "Edit" > "Sources" > "Other Software" > "Add", you can enter the name of a PPA, and USC will show the PPA as its own child item of "Get Software".
The second suggestion is based on the assumption that PPAs are for "normal users", but they are not. PPAs are for software developers and testers who are testing software from people they trust. (This is also why the method of adding a PPA is relatively well-hidden.) Letting people search for PPAs from anyone would be a security problem, because anyone with a Launchpad account could upload malware that looked like a new version of a popular application, especially an application that isn't already available in the Ubuntu archives. To the extent that PPAs are used for purposes other than development and testing, it is because our processes for adding trustable applications to USC are inefficient. See <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYqT5PnPCs> for a preview of the work going on to fix this. ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782211 Title: Feature for adding PPA -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
