EDIT: Omit that extra L in your mind. #^^#
I'm well known by my family and friends for letting the little things in life get me really excited. And well, open source has no shortage of awesome little things coming along. Big things, too- Broadcom's drivers, round sexy tooltips in KDE 4.5, effortless file transfers, the MeMenu- and now, KpackageKit.
Turns out that a very recent update made KpackageKit has made it even more viable as an Ubuntu Software Center replacement. Of course, software sources, the update packager, and then categories had been included since 10.04. But now it turns out it has icons to indicate the application rather than a package, and you can either click install or the short blurb to get a full description, larger logo, and a screenshot.
HECK YEAH! This was the main reason I kept suggesting Ubuntu over Kubuntu for friends and family (still, I know many would do better with Gnome anyway, but now they as noobs have a CHOICE without being intimidated by the package manager!).
This is just plain awesome.
And for those of you who don't like KDE because it's too Windows-ey... you need to get over where things are placed by default and see KDE for what it is. It couldn't be further from Windows. Just let me have this moment, just this one moment of bliss. T3T This is so cool, Canonical and the dev teams actually care about KDE! *squeals like a little boy on Christmas... crap, even boys don't do that*
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