On Tuesday 15 of July 2014 11:22:44 Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi all, > > A few weeks ago we produced this: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBmdtwDH6WHaLBfy6yqYqjEd3IA5GBEDyh-6 > 5FVnDMc/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. Hi, speaking with my KDE PIM developer hat on, I think it makes a lot of sense to actually split the package per-app, so we would have kdepim-akonadiconsole (I'd actually prefer if this was not installed by default, so that people would not be tempted to play with it :P) kdepim-akregator kdepim-blogilo kdepim-kaddressbook kdepim-kjots kdepim-kleopatra kdepim-kmail kdepim-knode kdepim-knotes kdepim-kontact kdepim-korganizer kdepim-libs (libs shared by multiple PIM apps) kdepim-common (?) (shared executables, like incidenceeditor-ng, Akonadi agents, etc) If others agree with this, I can help with figuring out the inter- dependencies. Can't speak for kipi-plugin and kicad, as I don't know much about those two. Cao, Daniel > > Richard. > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- Daniel Vrátil | dvratil@xxxxxxxxxx | dvratil on #kde-devel, #kontact, #akonadi KDE Desktop Team Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat GPG Key: 0xC59D614F6F4AE348 Fingerprint: 4EC1 86E3 C54E 0B39 5FDD B5FB C59D 614F 6F4A E348
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