Ubuntu Software Centre Gets Star Ratings & Reviews

By , Published January 25, 2010

The Ubuntu Software Centre gained star-ratings and reviews for application selections in a recent update to the current development release, Ubuntu 10.04.

Well, sorta. I’ll explain.

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Although you can see the star ratings and number of “reviews” within the software centre, you can’t actually rate anything yet. The ability to rate applications will be implemented over the course of Lucids’ development.

How rating will work in Lucid
To rate an application in Lucid you will be asked to sign in with your Ubuntu ‘Single Sign-On’ account – better known currently known as a Launchpad account. (This account will have uses further along the line with the Ubuntu Music Store. Stay tuned!)

Once signed in you will be presented with the following pop-up window: -

Okay, so it won’t look exactly like that but you can get the gist.

Once you’re neatly signed in you will then be able to enter your review in a window like so: -

Okay, so once again the actual window dialogue doesn’t exist yet but the above diagram gives you a very precise indication of what form it will take.

As for the reviews themselves, it seems they are intended to appear beneath the ‘install’ buttons within the app-preview window.

Exciting stuff!

Images 2,3 copyright Mark Shuttleworth,

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Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Great!! It will be excellent =D

    Thanks lad, this is the best Ubuntu website around! =D

  • Anonymous

    Joey, isn’t it like 4am in the UK right about now??

  • Arthur Cruz Domingues

    Will anybody moderate the reviews?

    • Scott

      I would guess there’ll be a “this post is spam / inappropriate” button or similar

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        There will most certainly be a process for flagging ‘inappropriate’ reviews and removing them ASAP. Given i can’t imagine there will be gazillions of reviews submitted, this job will be fairly easy.

  • Anonymous

    Ok but surely the ability to install multiple applications in one go (as in synaptic), instead of backwards and forwards for each piece of software, would be a greater improvement.

    • Anonymous

      yes… i’m still installing my many optional programs from a script, right now software centre would take ages to to that

    • Anonymous

      A much greater improvement. That was what put me off most about the newer version.

  • http://www.thekiplingconspiracy.co.uk christiegrinham

    Lookin’ good. Hope there is a report button for abusive posts/spam.

  • bhm

    Instead of reviews I’d rather see link to search through ubuntu forums for threads with common problems and other links to post that solved any problem with that app.

    Review by users. Big no, no. There are posts, blogs and articles for many apps. People rather should read something valuable, not “WOW great app, Chrome sucks, no extensions”.

  • Mohan

    Looks like it’s coming together well, I love the new breadcrumb in Lucid Alpha 2 for the Software Centre.

  • Anonymous

    Why should we not include a “repair” or “reconfigure” or “reinstall” buttons along with “install/remove” buttons. This will ensure users are able to reconfigure some of the programs or repair broken packages.

  • Anonymous

    A “repair” or “reinstall” button should also be placed along with “repair/install” button to ensure users can fix broken packages and address some of the common issues with dependencies, signatures etc.

  • Anonymous

    This is the ***SECOND*** package manager from Canonical, meet Canonical’s first Package Manager, works with .DEB and .RPM, GUI and CLI, Auto-Fix broken packages: http://ur1.ca/kr48

  • Mike

    This will be great. I see a “Price: Free” which leads me to believe their will soon be a pay option. I hope they also implement a “Donate” option. :)

  • http://iphoneawareness.com/firmware/ Iphone Firmware

    what a great article, thanks for publishing this. will read more from you many thanks!

  • Anonymous

    I wonder whatever happened to this. I doesn’t seem to have made it into Lucid or Maverick.