As I think and as Rob mentioned in this video, it could be better to have a software center instead of or with Pamac GUI. It would be pleasure to use software center instead of a package manager like gui app. Pls
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Even if Gnome is my current DE of choice, there is something else outside of Gnome.
KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, LXQT, … A too gnomish look for Pamac would not necessarily looks good on all environments.
Why should Pamac mimic Gnome Software Center specifically? Why not KDE Discover? Or Pop Shop?
Pamac is Pamac. If you have requests, suggestions, graphism ideas, you can open issues into Pamac section of Manjaro Gitlab.
Rn it’s not really a pleasure to use it in case of user experience. It could be more simple, more like Gnome Software, Kde Software and Pop Shop mixed. I don’t know, why don’t just give a try and check if it looks good, boosts the user experience, or not.
Tuxmanjarino and anzel. Don’t you like improving stuff? This is what Linus Torwalds talked about. This is why Linux will never become mainstream (if we don’t improve stuff soon). Because the big tech always tries something out, tries to improve their software based on user feedback or not. But currently neither of opensource devs take critisism very great (except and thanks who does!!!)
The problem is, the improvements you are talking about, is opinion-based. So the improvement is your opinion on how you like it, not how others will like it too.
Many people don’t like how Gnome Software looks and behaves, that’s why there are alternatives, like Pamac.