CLI tools in Gnome Software?

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>*/ wrote on Fri, 2 Jan 2015 
10:47:21 +0000:
> On 1 January 2015 at 22:25, Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> it's just funny that something like gedit and
>> Windows notepad can be considered 'applications' but GCC can't!
> We're using this definition here:
> https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application
Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a "GNOME Application", 
but doesn't seem to be OK for Fedora application.

Edit: I didn't know. I thought it is the same as the other one given in 
a previous email. I see it doesn't require things like a 'primary 
window'. It seems that many command line utilities in Security spin can 
be considered applications since security spin provides .desktop files 
and icons for many of them! But, should people start working around the 
limitation of your definition by providing icons/.desktop files for 
command line apps?

Also, you already include non-application software such as Fonts. And 
I'd bet that there are some non-GUI software which are much more useful 
to be included than fonts which will be rarely used. How many times a 
user might need to install fonts after installing Fedora? Specially 
after the initial setup, I don't think its very likely that (s)he will 
need to install new fonts. But, in case of developers, they might 
require new -devel packages, profiling tools, etc. every now and then. 
And a developer certainly appreciates user reviews when he wants to 
select a library between many different libraries providing a similar 
functionality.

BTW, input methods, codecs and fonts are already included. Why such a 
hard position against things such as console applications, and -devel 
packages? Yes, regular libraries are *usually* not installed directly, 
but on the other hand, -devel packages are almost always installed 
directly, or as a dependency of another -devel (or toolchain) package.


>> Certainly, the concept of 'console applications' is a widely recognized concept
> It's really not.
Sure?
Wikipedia has a page about it, one of the application types you can 
create in Qt Creator is "Qt Console Application", Microsoft Visual 
Studio also provides a "Console Application" type. Yes, none of these 
are authoritative, but I wonder if there is any reference backing your 
claim.


>> It doesn't fit my 1024x768 screen which is really annoying
> Is this F21? If so, sounds like you need to file a bug upstream.
Yes. Done already: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742211


>
> Richard

Regards,
Hedayat
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