<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Richard Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com" target="_blank">hughsient@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi all. I'm the developer for PackageKit and gnome-software, the<br>
latter being the new software center we're hopefully including as a<br>
technical preview in Fedora 20.</div></blockquote><div>[snip] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks in advance!<br>
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Richard<br>
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[1] <a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/" target="_blank">http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/tree/master/appdata-extra" target="_blank">https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/tree/master/appdata-extra</a><br>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Few more things I think you should know:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The metadata is DE-agnostic, which means that KDE (for example) could implement their own software center using the same metadata as well, so by adding appdata files you don't only help the GNOME spin of Fedora, but make it possible for other desktops to use the same data for their own application installers as well. <br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">gnome-software is still in an early preview phase, so more features will be added soon. (for example, an "addons" category to list fonts, codecs, and so forth).<br><br>We already have someone working on support for firefox webapps, and I have few more ideas in mind. <br>
The pluggable architecture of gnome-software easily allows to add more types of software sources - it's not just a frontend for packagekit! <br>We can easily add support for extensions from <a href="http://extensions.gnome.org">extensions.gnome.org</a>, <br>
or perhaps listing fedorapeople repos under the (not-yet-implemented) addons category so people would be able to easily add them to their systems without needing to use the CLI. (I still need to run this idea past the designers for sanity-check).<br>
<br>I'm also trying to get in touch with Valve to make Steam integrate itself into gnome-software (if installed).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We have been waiting for a proper app installer for years, and now it finally happening. Exciting times ahead!<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We need all the help we can get to make this as awesome as possible, so please don't hesitate to contribute.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you have already installed Fedora 20, go ahead and type "yum install gnome-software" and give it a go! <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div dir="ltr">-Elad Alfassa.<br></div><div>(elad661 on freenode, elad on gimpnet)<br></div>
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