This past holiday weekend I was talking about this to my son. This is exactly what Ubuntu needs one place to go for anything software. Fantastic! Go Ubuntu!!!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Same old, same old.
Kpackagetit, Synaptic, etc..theyre ALL the same except for 'slightly' different UI.

I've used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu and I could care less which they use.
Of course, UI queens will always say that this or that way is 'better' but that's a question of taste.
Some people like the Mac like top taskbar with the text always there in case you forget where to go and some people hate it.

Its like arguing which way toilet paper should roll.

I like it! The one thing that I'd like to see included, which is also absent from add/remove, Synaptic, etc. is the ability to sort apps by most recently added to the list. I'm always curious what has been most recently added or available. It would be further useful if you could control that sort for recent updates (either to exclude or include).

I Agree with you Marius.
For a just normal Ubuntu user like me, it is sometimes not so clear where to look, whether in Synaptic or on add/Remove programs.
It will be easier If it is all in one place. Plus also the Update Manager
..... It will be ideal.

The first mockup is by MadsRH, a valued Ubuntu community member. It is not “courtesy of Canonical”.

What's missing from this which I'd like to see is filters to let me for example; "exclude all packages that depend on qt or kde".

I believe that Ubuntu Tweak already does exactly this - even looks just like the mock-up

Been done before, just see the Linux Mint "mintInstall" portal. Then again, Mint is based on ubuntu

It's like a WalMart - gobs of goop, and who cares - I just need some cheap dark beer and some frozen pizza. I know what I need and I know how to get it.

Leave the tupidifications (Oh, and have you seen the new Firefox 3.5 and beyond?) for the Twitter clueless - Ubuntu does not need dumbing down as in M$ Vista - it needs EVERY bug addressed and zero boot time and absolute functionality in the corporate and design world!

Anyone care to debate?

emarkay

Boot time is completely irrelevant. Instead of wasting developer effort on boot time, why couldn't they have fixed suspend/hibernate, so that booting is unnecessary?

What Ubuntu needs most is a focus on fixing existing bugs and making the interface easier to use.

Mint Linux already has this

All I know is that they need to keep synaptic separate it helps when your trying to trouble shoot with dependencies and such. Also, when your in an undevolped nation and there are many hiccups in the internet it guides me in telling me what debs are needed before where I can download off the packages.ubuntu.com and install manually.

Add/ Remove Programs is ok if your in a country with stable internet tho.

This is "Mint Install", I see nothing that is any different that what Linux Mint has developed and used for the last few releases. The story needs to be "Ubuntu adopting Linux Mint Installer".

Uhhhhhhh... what happened to PackageKit?

It is still developed by the GNOME project, and it will probably be available with the GNOME 2.28 release. More details here:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Administration/gnome-packagekit-47103.shtml

They should make a cool App Store like solution. That would be sweet. Where cool apps could be funneled through to users and if they were good with good prices that would be sweet.

They would have to make it nice without going the CNR route (Old apps, etc)

This would be really cool if Canonical is opening a app store where you can buy apps as well. This would get the paid software market in the linux world a major boost. However, I don't think from the mockup that it will replace synaptic as this looks to be a "application level package manager" whereas Synaptic is a "package level package manager". You'll always need to be able to manage individual packages, so the two will probably co-exist, however synaptic probably wont be installed by default.

apt-get allow to download and compile software, but always show these packets "out of date", i think was a great job allow to download software + compile, and mantain it with updates... i don't see these in the abilities list :(

Man I don't know or care.All I want is to be in control of my own system.Not Microsoft or Apple or anyone else.Can someone direct me to an ISP dial up provider that supports Ubuntu?

Thanks Sincerely Samuel Blackbird