Hi, I've been talking to a few people at DevConf here in Brno. One thing people kept asking was how we chose the "picked" apps in the software center we show on the overview panel. At the moment there's a list of applications we consider worth featuring on the front page, or a random rotation, which for upstream is chosen by the GNOME designers. Perhaps in the long term we can use the usage data from Fedora tagger as well, although we maybe we want to keep a "chosen" list to have a coherent set of high quality applications to showcase, that are not installed by default. I don't know what the direction of Fedora.next is going to do in regards to workstation spins and alternate desktops, but it probably makes sense to recommend and promote different apps when running the software center on XFCE, MATE and LXDE. Possibly also for KDE, although that's possibly more controversial as it's going to feel quite like a non-native app. SIGs might also want to do something else too, although I'd argue perhaps providing a slightly different UI for installing all the apps for "robotics" or "3d printing" might be a better thing to do here. So I'm basically asking, do other desktops *want* to change the list of featured apps? The only prerequisite is that the application needs AppData, although that can be provided by the packager rather than upstream as a fallback. If so let me know and I'll write up some docs on what gnome-software needs in terms of data. There's also a few other data files for things like defining a base set of libraries required for the desktop (e.g. gtk3 for GNOME) and also a list of core components you can't casually upgrade by double clicking on a .rpm file (e.g. kernel, glibc). Both lists are wonderfully under-researched and incomplete, and hopefully will be more fleshed out when we know what's happening with products / spins / rings thing. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
