Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

[Andreas Tunek]

2014-01-27 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 17:11 +0100, Andreas Tunek a écrit :
>> 2014-01-26 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
>> > Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 à 18:14 +0100, Heiko Adams a écrit :
>> >> Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>> >> > Hi
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:57 AM, drago01 wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >         No this isn't an issue at all. No one is saying that non gui
>> >> >         apps are
>> >> >         useless or should be removed.
>> >> >         The point is that gui installer installs gui apps. If you want
>> >> >         to
>> >> >         install a command line tool whats wrong with
>> >> >         using the command line for that? If you don't know how to use
>> >> >         the
>> >> >         command line there is no point in installing
>> >> >         it in the first place.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I can use yum just fine but I don't find it convenient to go to the
>> >> > gui for gui apps and then remember to go use yum to install command
>> >> > line apps.
>> >> >
>> >> Following this logic users have to use yum, dnf, yumex oder
>> >> gnome-packagekit-installer to install i.e. additional GUI-Themes or
>> >> mouse-cursors because they are no apps and for that reason not listed in
>> >> gnome-software, right? If yes, that's IMHO absolute bullshit!
>> >
>> > It would make more sense to install them directly from the tool that set
>> > the mouse cursors, or the theme. Why switch to a different tool ( ie, a
>> > software installer ) to install something that is not a software ?
>> >
>>
>> So every application that could be extended would have to be
>> rewritten?
>
> not rewritten, but extended.
>
>>  How would you solve stuff like extra gvfs-components? Have
>> that support in nautilus?
>
> like we do for gstreamer or fonts. In the case of gvfs, this could
> manifests by people trying to connect to ftp, and then showing a popup
> "this url is not supported, but we can install it".
>
>

So someone has to rewrite nautilus (and a lot of other apps) then?


/Andreas


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