Re: Fwd: Re: Vagrant: can we make it show up in Software?

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So apparently, some CLI apps should probably go into Software, but how
are we going to decide that Vagrant and Powertop are fine while Python
and GCC are not?

Should we keep it upon individual maintainer discretion? Should we
somehow evaluate all the cases one by one?


V.


Dne 19. 10. 18 v 12:24 Richard Hughes napsal(a):
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 09:36, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I was always under impression, that we don't want to show CLI apps in
>> Software. Not sure what was the reasoning behind, but I can imagine that:
>> * we don't want Python to show up in Software (for example)
> Right, agreed.
>
>> * screenshots of terminal window are not really attractive
> Also agreed.
>
>> Reading the AppData guidelines [1], it states several times something
>> like "If a package contains a GUI application" never mentions CLI. That
>> just strengthens my impression. So should we extend the guidelines to
>> support CLI apps?
> I think you have to be careful. I don't think we want every CLI
> application, and I don't think we want to have frameworky things like
> GCC available in software either, but somethings do make sense. For
> instance, powertop seems a useful thing to have, especially if you can
> launch it straight from gnome-software. I don't think a simple "no
> command line apps" stance is so useful now.
>
> Richard.
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