Hi! On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:07 PM Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > People, > > I've talked to Felipe Borges a few days ago and he told me one thing > he'd need, from GNOME Boxes perspective, is whether an ISO is intended > to be a "Desktop" or a "Server" ISO. Thank you for pushing this forward! > IMO supporting this on libosinfo should be fairly easy, but I'd like > to check with all you whether my approach seems okay, before start to > implement it. > > A simple "flavour" field in the <media> entry would do the job. We can > have an enum as "desktop", "server" and "default". The "default" would > be selected in case anything is specified and would be treated as > "it's not specific a desktop neither a server ISO". I would suggest a syntax which would add an optional extra property to the <variant> node. Why? Distros might want to call their flavours differently. For instance, Fedora calls its desktop flavour "workstation", while Ubuntu calls it "Desktop". So something like: <variant id="workstation" flavour="desktop"> <_name>Fedora 29 Workstation</_name> </variant> In terms of XML, the "flavour" property should be a defined one just like the architecture names (see 'archnames' in the osinfo schema). > The idea behind this is to simple allow apps as GNOME Boxes to sort > how they'd present the medias to the users according to what the user > needs. Yay! With my suggestion above, we could: - present the distros in the UI exactly as they want (Fedora wants its desktop flavour to be called "Workstation" and we shall respect that); - programmatically present distros of a specific flavour (for instance, suggest the "desktop" flavour in the recommended downloads view); - Create advanced filters, combining flavours, architectures, and whatnot. These are my couple of cents. Cheers, Felipe. > Is this approach okay? May I start implementing it? > > Best Regards, > -- > Fabiano Fidêncio > > _______________________________________________ > Libosinfo mailing list > Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
