On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:43 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > >> Is changing the app-id right? To me, app IDs correspond to >> application >> identity. If a user has a Fedora version of GEdit installed, and then >> installs a newer version of GEdit from upstream, I would expect: >> >> - Only one GEdit icon appears in the list of applications >> - If the user marked GEdit as a favorite, the favorite icon >> retargets to the newer installed version >> >> By using the name GEdit and the GEdit icon, Fedora has already made >> the >> claim *to the user* that what it packaged is GEdit - having a >> different >> application ID under the hood can only lead to confusion. > > Yeah, i agree, its not like having the fedora version and the upstream > version installed in parallel would work well anyway (which is which in > the shell?). I think we need to handle this in the same way that we > handle two different versions of an upstream gedit installed in > parallel (which currently has only one at a time being exported to the > system). We probably need to mark somehow that this is a fedora built > version though. Maybe we could add a packager field to the metadata. Why would that matter to the user? If gedit 3.16.2 is built by Fedora or Upstream is more or less an implementation detail. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
