= Proposed System Wide Change: Application Installer Continued = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstallerContinued Change owner(s): Richard Hughes for the implementation, Ryan Lerch and Allan Day for the design <rhughes@xxxxxxxxxx> Fully integrate the new application installer with Fedora, and complete its feature set. == Detailed Description == gnome-software will support installing system add-ons such as fonts and codecs. It will show additional metadata for applications: screenshots, ratings, other details. We will also work with the Fedora infrastructure team to obtain the metadata online for all applications instead of shipping it statically for a limited set. The metadata for application needs to be expanded and its quality monitored. Screenshots need to be taken or updated. The update monitoring and downloading functionality will be moved from the gnome-settings-daemon updates plugin into gnome-software. To implement this, gnome-software will be turned into a session service, and the updates plugin will be removed from gnome-settings-daemon. A gnome-shell search provider will offer installable applications as search results. gnome-software will allow to customize the app folders that are displayed in the gnome-shell app picker. We will switch to using the hawkey PackageKit backend. We also want to try to integrate Fedora accounts for collecting ratings and installed package lists, but this requires coordination with the Fedora infrastructure team. The priorities for gnome-software 3.12 are also tracked upstream [1]. == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** Add add-on support (DONE) ** Display additional metadata in details page (DONE) ** Implement a GNOME shell search provider (DONE) ** Turn gnome-software into a session service and take over updates plugin functionality (DONE) ** Implement app folder configuration (DONE) ** Turn search into search-as-you-type ** Implement Fedora account integration ** Replace old gnome-packagekit package installation dialogs (DONE) ** Switch PackageKit to use the hawkey backend (DONE) * Infrastructure: ** Extract metadata and icons when building packages in koji [2] ** Make metadata available for packaged applications in Fedora ** Make application icons available ** Make application screenshots available ** Make it possible to create Fedora accounts from the client-side ** Allow storing small amount of per-user data for users with a Fedora account * Application packagers ** Add application metadata to their packages, ideally sending it upstream * Marketing, documentation ** Assist with review and quality control of application metadata ** Assist with selecting featured applications * Policies and guidelines: ** We want to use the hawkey backend in PackageKit while the default commandline utility is still yum; this kind of separation was rejected by Fesco in the past for zif, will need to ask again (DONE, approved conditionally) ** The packaging guidelines for applications should be updated to require application metadata in addition to a desktop file ** The update experience will also benefit from proposed changes to batch updates, but batched updates are not a strict requirement for the new app installer [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software#Priorities_.26_Plans [2] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5721 rel-eng ticket _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
