On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 12:13 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:It is an application installer, first and foremost. Installing
> I have tested gnome-software to see the current state, compaired to
> gpk in F19, there is a lot stuff there cant be done.
>
>
> 1. You cant install backgrounds / icons
backgrounds/icons/themes is not a priority. That being said, 3.11 can
install fonts and codecs.
What menu ? And what application ?
> 2. Not all application found in the menu, can be found under
> installed, you can search for them and find them, but cant remove them
> (ex. Document viewer)
We have a notion of 'core app' - for things that 'come with the OS'. We
don't allow to uninstall those.
> 3. if you search for 'icons' you get at lot of wrong positives, whereSearch looks at keywords from desktop files in addition to descriptions
> there is no visible relation to icons in the text shown
and names. Would be good to see some concrete examples of the false
positives you get. I only get gnome-tweak-tool and some icon-related
font.
> 4. Description is missing from almost every application.Richard has pushed very hard for getting descriptions upstream - you may
have seen his repeated posts on this topic. And we have made quite a bit
of progress. But getting every application equipped with a good
description, screenshots, and other metadata will take some time, and
some help from the packagers and maintainers of those applications.
> I think the current state will make Fedora look limitted for newCompared to Ubuntu, certainly. But compared to gpk-application F19, I
> Fedora users.
don't think so.