Re: unaccessability

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Hi


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Christian Schaller  wrote:
Hi,
The core principle of the installer is that it operates on an application level and not a package level. The current way it determines if something is an application
 is by looking for a .desktop file. So in theory you could put a bitchx.desktop file  into the bitchx package and it would appear in the installer. That said I don't
think it is generally a bad idea if command line/terminal applications are installed from the command line, but there is no hard policy blocking such applications from making themselves available in the installer.

It might be a good idea to rethink this strategy.  I don't have a problem with using yum but I am not going to fire up the installer just for gui packages and fall back to command line to install command line applications.  It is a confusing approach.   Perhaps instead of ignoring them entirely, you can just sort the results or having a secondary view "Click here for command line applications that match your search results"  etc can be considered.

Rahul
 
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