Mustafa Muhammad wrote: > Today I was testing the F25 RC-1.1, tried to install google-chrome > (downloaded rpm) and apper crashed (already reported bug): > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383747 This one is probably a regression from the KF5 port. (Installing downloaded RPMs worked in the kdelibs4 version.) > Also, opening apper, and selecting any group results in: > "A problem that we were not expecting has occurred. > Please report this bug with the error description." > "SearchGroups not supported by backend" > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098735 And this one is a long-known missing feature in PackageKit-hif. This is not Apper's fault at all. Get PackageKit fixed. Workaround: search by name or description instead, you will find your package(s) that way. Or use Discover (which uses AppStream for browsing). > If we want our users to install RPMs without terminal, I think it > would be reasonable to include something that actually works for F26, The plan is to ship: https://github.com/anaselli/dnfdragora (It uses DNF directly without going through the PackageKit layer, and thus can browse groups just fine.) > some will hate me for this, but if nothing change before F26, we > better include gnome-software. Why? It has basically the same feature set (and in particular, also the same set of things it does NOT do) as Discover. > The download size for installing it is 9.2M over my F25, and this also > includes flatpack. That is absolutely HUGE for something as simple as an application browser. The Flatpak runtimes are probably the main reason. > This will break our Qt purity even more, but I think > plasma-discover+gnome-software is better than plasma-discover+apper. How is it better to ship 2 app stores with nearly identical functionality than an app store and a package manager? I think shipping Discover and dnfdragora, or even just dnfdragora, is the way to go. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
