Ubuntu Addon Service?

[chris4585]

I have posted my idea on brainstorm.ubuntu.com but i want a response from some people from the forum

My idea is, why not have a addon service similar to the way firefox handles addons?

Goal: Make it easy to install neat little programs that dont make it into the Ubuntu release but are still good ideas, like example, installing the slab menu, or colored update notifier, or possibly a alarm, something like so

The addons would be easily enabled, disabled, installed, and removed

How it would work: maybe a little app under system menu somewhere that functions just like firefox's addon manager

The addons could be on www.addons.ubuntu.com

[jimbren]

This will probably make me seem like a jackass, but what's wrong with
[CODE]sudo apt-get install[CODE] as an addon service?

[chris4585]

i suppose they could make a category in synaptic like addons, and do it that way..

but in my idea anyone could make addons not just the developers

[akiratheoni]

It just sounds to me like the package manager really.

[master5o1]

The apt url function with a third party repo would cover this.

[chris4585]

just an idea, i thought it would be cool if we could add neat little programs that are in the category of neat things that just cant all fit in ubuntu's release

i thought it would be cool if something *like* this could be used