On 6 March 2013 22:18, Ryan Lerch <rlerch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Application-focused installation tool is an issue that we really need to > solve in Fedora This isn't a Fedora specific problem. >, hoever, this discussion is seemingly devolving into a > low-level argument about technologies and implementation details. Right, my point is basically that something has to provide the data. We can't wave our hands in the air and proclaim "it should work like THIS" if we've not got the resources to make it happen. > Is there a high-level writeup anywhere of the design of the GNOME-software > tool? I guess my blog post and the code is pretty much all we've got. > How it each feature in the GNOME-software tool is supposed to interact > with the technologies that keep popping up in this discussion (OCS, > AppStream)? I've designed plugins to allow gnome-software to use lots of different resources. At the moment on fedora, the resources that work are: hardcoded: static favourite apps, core apps and ratings packagekit: gets updates and installed packages desktopdb: uses the PackageKit desktop.db cache to map package names to desktop names datadir-apps: uses the files in /usr/share/applications to provide icons and translations for installed applications Plugins that won't work with Fedora: appstream: uses the .sql and .tar.gz files to provide translations and icons for not-yet-installed applications > Using this, we can start thinking on how to leverage the > current fedora infratructure we have (Fedora Packages, Tagger, Fedora > Accounts System) to either complement or replace things like OCS in this > ecosystem. My plan is to write fedora-specific plugins to interface to things like Tagger and FAS. > Either way, having clear documentation on how this is supposed to function > would be a good place to start. Sure. I only started hacking on gnome-software a few weeks ago, and so it's all a bit under-documented. I'm happy to answer as many questions here as you like :) I'll also post some more docs in the git repo when I've landed the plugin branch. Richard. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
