On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:03:08AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It will come as no surprise to many of you, but I'm going to propose >> that we only show applications in the software center in F22 when they >> have an AppData file. At the moment nearly 50% of applications in >> Fedora 21 ship AppData files, and the ones left over are not exactly >> the award winning ones, if you know what I mean. We want the software >> center to be a showcase of all the awesome applications available on >> Fedora, not just a wrapper around a package installer. > I agree with the proposal, with one caveat: some of the packages that > do not have appdata files are fairly important and popular packages, > but do not have appdata files because they are developed externally, > and do not follow the developments that gnome is spearheading. > > From the list: > - emacs > - various kde applications > - sagemath > - yakuake > > I think that emacs is already fixed / being fixed upstream, but even if it > wasn't, not presenting it in gnome-software seems like a bad idea from > the view of the whole distribution. > > So, I think your proposal should be amended with the a list kept > somewhere on a wiki of applications which must get appdata, and treat > this list as blocking for this feature. This list would include > applications that are "widely used", which people could extend after > providing a short justification. I hope we can agree that emacs falls > onto this list, but lshw-gui does not. Why wouldn't we (Fedora) add an AppData file to the package ourselves for such exceptions? josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
