-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Grossmeier wrote on 28/08/09 14:56: >... > Just double checking that I understand this part correctly: we're > going to have a line in every single software package description in > all of the Ubuntu repositories that says "Price: Free"? > > EDIT: Just confirmed this with mpt on #ubuntu-devel and he pointed me > to this bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/419295 (thanks, mpt) > > From a librarian's point of view (you've solicited our help, and I > have the degree) that seems like an awful waste of space for something > that will only being "Price: !Free" 0.001% of the time.
How do you know that? In the iPhone App Store, for example, 77 % of the applications have a non-zero price. > Be explicit when > needed, don't clutter the user's view with information that > practically never changes. I would suggest _only_ showing Price > information when there _is_ a price. As I explained in the bug report, that "would cause a Simon-says problem, where the way to verify that something was free would be to check that there was no 'Price:' row anywhere on the page." > My point: > > Explicitly saying "Free" to counteract the fact that it is called a > "Store" seems like a lot of work to fix a problem that is avoidable by > calling it something other than a Store. >... I would have specified that that line should be there regardless of what the program was called. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqc32MACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoBdQCdFVxObXGJBR05IqDbd/zlcaMS 2AIAoMrX2VjOubYxf2d+wfMMrt6sHwmP =NWyZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop