Fedora runtimes and sandboxed desktop applications

[drago01]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:43 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
>> Is changing the app-id right? To me, app IDs correspond to
>> application
>> identity. If a user has a Fedora version of GEdit installed, and then
>> installs a newer version of GEdit from upstream, I would expect:
>>
>>  - Only one GEdit icon appears in the list of applications
>>  - If the user marked GEdit as a favorite, the favorite icon
>>    retargets to the newer installed version
>>
>> By using the name GEdit and the GEdit icon, Fedora has already made
>> the
>> claim *to the user* that what it packaged is GEdit - having a
>> different
>> application ID under the hood can only lead to confusion.
>
> Yeah, i agree, its not like having the fedora version and the upstream
> version installed in parallel would work well anyway (which is which in
> the shell?). I think we need to handle this in the same way that we
> handle two different versions of an upstream gedit installed in
> parallel (which currently has only one at a time being exported to the
> system). We probably need to mark somehow that this is a fedora built
> version though. Maybe we could add a packager field to the metadata.

Why would that matter to the user? If gedit 3.16.2 is built by Fedora
or Upstream is more or less an implementation detail.