I guess my question is- what's the point? It doesn't seem to have any additional functionality over plain synaptic, indeed it doesn't have the features that Synaptic has. It didn't pick up what I already have installed, has no obvious way to easily learn more about the packages (like depends, etc.), and is slower than Synaptic.

I guess it is a neat demonstration of technology, but IMHO it is a solution for a non existent problem (maybe the curmudgeon in me speaking).