Re: [Trisquel-users] Helping new users choose application software

[strypey]

OK, so you endorse my proposed three category rating system, but propose  
reducing the number of GUI interfaces to maintain. I believe that AR/A and  
Synaptic should have quite different purposes. In my original proposal, AR/A  
would only offer end-user applications, although I agree this would include  
any user-friendly expansions available for those applications. Synaptic would  
also offer packages average end users don't use, for things like development  
environments, test servers etc.

I presume that the same non-graphical back-end programs are being invoked by  
both AR/A and Synaptic when they call the same functions (eg install or  
uninstall), and that these same programs are probably being invoked by  
apt-get commands too. Also, the Synaptic and AR/A GUIs are mostly calling on  
libraries used in other graphical apps. So there's not as much duplication of  
effort as it might appear.