On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
I wouldn't call it an assumption. It's a conscious design decision.
gnome-software is supposed to be an application installer where an
application is something that user can tangibly relate to, i.e. it has
a UI and an icon to be launched.
Well, just because it has a UI and icon doesn't mean it automatically gets included in GNOME Software. The requirements are higher than that (no Gtk1 apps or apps which don't have a high resolution icon, appdata etc) and is getting more stringent with time. That is a fine design goal if it was supposed to cater to purely desktop apps I suppose but the result of is that I cannot trust GNOME Software search because it might be excluding something I find useful and the filtering is not something I can configure. So I end up using dnf in the command line even though I would love to use GNOME Software more.