Hi

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy < wrote:
 There's already an application that does this, it's GNOME
Packages or use yum/dnf.

If this was the answer, there wouldn't be so many repeated discussions about it.  Users don't differentiate between say htop and geany as much as the designers seem to have assumed.  They treat them both as essentially "applications".  However it doesn't fit the definition that GNOME Software has and ends up being not included.   There are also users who love the ratings and additional metadata that  GNOME Software brings and they wouldn't get any of that with GNOME Packages or yum. dnf search is even more limiting since it doesn't offer even the rudimentary filtering by name that yum offers.   GNOME Packages also is not included by default.  In other words, GNOME Software solves a problem very well but unfortunately doesn't solve the problems that the target audience has that much. 

Rahul