GNOME develops its own Software Center

Gnome App Center is a new application that is still under development, for the management of applications with features similar to package manager Ubuntu's "Ubuntu Software Center". The new Gnome App Center is still in development but will be released with Gnome 3.6.

Gnome App Center allows users to find and install applications with great ease, offering category lists or the ability to search through a search bar. The project also includes an update manager with which we can update our packages and applications, and even the complete desktop environment and a section with the list of installed applications from which we can uninstall them.

The graphical interface of the Gnome App Center is minimalist and easy to use. Also, it has a slider and a section dedicated to recommended / popular apps.

Unlike the Ubuntu Software Center, the new Gnome App Center will not allow the installation of commercial applications and (although it is not confirmed) the GNOME Shell extensions will be integrated, to install the extensions from the browser.


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  1.   Felix Manuel Brito Amarante said

    And what do you suggest piece of …….?

  2.   john bonus said

    I suppose that the application will be synchronized with each repository of each distro so that what they comment does not happen and that is not new, there is already Apper and Appset-qt (in KDE) that work both in fedora and in Chakra and there is no problem.

  3.   Xavi said

    Excellent I am going to test it in Ubuntu Gnome ..

  4.   Sergio said

    This type of apparently exclusive software because it will not be valid for any distro does not seem ideal to me but it is accepted for the sake of freedom. Undoubtedly GNOME is moving towards its own operating system, I don't know if they have lost their grip with so much innovation ... for now I am still using Gnome Shell but at the same time I am grateful that in case the flies are there for a possible escape XFCE.

  5.   sielvy navanozky said
  6.   hype frames said

    wtf, and how would the 2 package managers behave? or now will they unify the one of all distros if they have gnome ??
    It seems pretty crazy to me, I can't imagine how they can do it and make it neat

  7.   croaker anurus said

    It seems to me that you ignore several things, ubuntu uses Unity, not gnome (albeit based on this one), and has its own software center, it will not use this new software center.

  8.   EFREN RAMIREZ C. said

    Great, finally a true gnome software center, this is what this magnificent desktop was missing, and even better for newbies like me.

  9.   Courage said

    Go nonsense, now to see if they are able to adapt it to all distros.

    Fuck it seems that Uncle Mark is paying them to put things

  10.   kasymaru said

    looks better than ubuntu! I don't know if it's just me but every time gnome is oriented almost as if it were an OS and not an environment. On the one hand, it is very good since they innovate a lot.

  11.   Diego Campos said

    Fantastic at last a very interesting package manager! 😀 most likely they will include it in fedora 18 (:

    Cheers(:

  12.   Courage said

    Suse has had a software center for ages

  13.   Courage said

    Well, don't use it then.

    Using the terminal is the most basic thing you have to do in Linux, whoever does not learn to use it is more lost than an octopus in a parking lot.

    90% of the manuals that you find online are made using the terminal.

    A system has to be used for something, and it works for something using the terminal.

    There is a saying:

    Who wants something, it costs something

  14.   Jamin fernandez said

    Excellent .. there are no excuses to switch to Fedora or Suse with Gnome

  15.   Courage said

    It's just not fair, that's it. It should also be an optional part of Gnome.

  16.   croaker anurus said

    but what is better ???, that it does not exist because it does not work in all distros, or that it at least works in those that it can ???

  17.   croaker anurus said

    I already think I see the problem, you cannot ask that all those who want to use Gnu / linux have to learn to use the terminal or make it difficult because otherwise, they do not learn, bother you because there is an easy way to install programs, it is silly, hence the Windows success, they don't care if the user has little knowledge, they care that they use the system to achieve an end, that's why I also care about that, being able to do functional things, not learning until the last console command, even for me that it was as or easier than windows, since to me, understanding a system has to serve something, not to learn it as an end in itself

  18.   Courage said

    And you seem to me to be a little troll.

    Who wants something, it costs something.

    There's no more.

    Learning must always be learned, just as they learned to use Windows and Mac to learn to use Linux, which is not that complicated.

    I don't have to have something on my computer that I don't use, so this from the software center should be a separate module.

  19.   Diego Campos said

    HaHaHa I think you only see one side of the Courage coin regarding the subjective opinion that a software center hinders learning, because if you analyze it a little more deeply, you will realize that this type of software could be said to be a kind of filter between Linux users who do want to learn and those who don't, because that Linux user who really wants to learn, no matter what software manager they have, will simply use the terminal or another resource to install and learn what they want no?

    Cheers(:

  20.   Courage said

    Sure, that's it.

    There are distros that do not use packages and most likely cannot use it.

    This Gnome is the law of the funnel, the width for one and the narrow for others.

    Well, very bad, or all or none, that's the way it should be

  21.   Croador Anuro said

    Excuse me, but I already know those things, and what I assume is evident is that somehow, that new software center will have the power to determine in which distro it is installed to know which installation package to use, I don't think gnome are so stupid not to have thought of that before, although of course I suppose there will be incompatibilities with some, so I assume that it would be better to use them in the most popular distros

  22.   Courage said

    Then you say that I get pissed off and that I am an edge, but you only have to see comments like the one by this "Félix Manuel Brito Amarante"

    Down there I have left the explanation, I think there are distros that will not be able to use it, so it is unfair.

  23.   Courage said

    It seems that you ignore several things, before Ubuntu used Unity it already had a software center and used Gnome.

    I have not explained myself well so I will now, let's see:

    Each distro uses a package system, those derived from Debian use .deb, those derived from Red Hat use rpm, OpenSUSE the same and on the other hand Arch has its own package system. There are also distros that don't use package systems

    A software center is not in itself a bad idea, the problem is that you have to adapt it to each distro, and even within those .deb and .rpm are different for each distro.

    And I highly doubt that for distros that don't use packages it can be adapted.

    On the other hand, I think this hinders learning, but that is already a subjective opinion.

  24.   Fosco_ said

    The idea seems great to me, as long as this new software center integrates perfectly with the current package managers of each distribution and does not generate more fragmentation.

  25.   Courage said

    That you go to the Ubuntu mosque to worship Uncle Mark piece of noob

  26.   Jos said

    hello how do i download this software