Hi all, A few weeks ago we produced this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBmdtwDH6WHaLBfy6yqYqjEd3IA5GBEDyh-65FVnDMc/edit?usp=sharing which is a list of all the desktop applications and addons that share package names in Fedora. The core problem is that users click "Remove" on "Akonadi Console" in either Apper or GNOME Software and then find that an application that they wanted to keep "KOrganizer" has gone too! So they re-install "KOrganizer" and the "Akonadi Console" item appears magically. The confused user then files a bug :) Splitting things up into subpackages containing the correct binary and the .desktop file, depending on a -common package would fix things, and is what most of the software in that shared document has already done. The alternative is to add NoDisplay=true to the desktop file for something like Akonadi Console that might want to be hidden in the menus, or blacklist akonadiconsole.desktop from the metadata parser completely. The other fix we can do is to "merge" the child applications into a parent application, e.g. we merged git-dag into git-cola so only the latter is shown in the software center. This isn't ideal as then you hide the very thing the user might be looking for (although, we do inherit the merged applications keywords and mimetypes for searching). In an ideal world we should split up the kicad, kipi-plugins and kdepim packages into 4+ subpackages each, but I wanted to know what you all thought of the proposal before I filed a bug or worked on a patch. Ideas welcome, thanks. Richard. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
