Well we (as in we the guys that had app manager ideas) asked to merge the initial brainstorms " Improving App-Manager: download/Install basket" with "Improving app-manager user experience" so that the users could express themselves with more ease on the app manager improvement options.

Our goal was avoiding the "oh, another appmanager thread, I already voted for other 3... what could this one possibly want more"

So the users can check a single brainstorm about app-man and choose what they think fits them best.

Proposal:
Let's summarize the solutions, make a TOP 3 and give the users a chance to see the others via a "see more link".
Brainstorms like calendar improvement that fail to have 3 top solutions (with more votes than the others) within a week should be somehow downgraded.

Sorry for the oftopic.

nice idea!

Thanks.

Any progress anyone?

I added a little cosmetic solution since i've already made and submitted a patch that fixes it.

Solution #12: Make the extended description less command-line like

Posted on 2010-01-30 18:03 UTC by David Falkayn.

Summary: This is a purely cosmetic change that is already implemented: it just needs to be included by the App Manager maintainers. It flows the extended description text to fill the window.

I made a very simple patch for App Manager a while ago that improves the "nicefy" function that prepares a package's extended description for display. This is what the user sees when they ask to see details about a package.

Currently, the text is fixed-width. If the package's extended description has lines that are too long, they will wrap to the next line and leave an ugly linebreak midway through the next line.

My patch flows the text so that it fills the window properly, looking more like a GUI should and less like a nasty UNIX CLI-cum-GUI wrapper.

Details here: Extended description panel doesn't flow text.

Is there any way to delete or edit a solution?

I added a solution a while back to implement wazd (Andrew Zhilin)'s extras-assistant, but it seems it's a 3rd party app.

If someone could do it, either edit, or delete and create a new solution:

Merge wazd's extras-assistant with the app-man itself.

Just tell me which one you want edited/merged

I proposed a solution to hide applications from the list...

Everytime I browse the app manager I run into applications I have already seen but do not want to install... I find it very useful to hide those applications so that we can browse applications faster.

Plz vote for this solution

In case you aren't tracking replies to your thread

I did track the reply to my thread but I did not find it useful. I thought I'd add a solution to this brainstorm so that it is added officially

In fact, I already tried this application but I want the feature to be available to all repositories in the official application manager.

This is also considered a bug and it's pretty old too.