[IAEP] [Marketing] Users cannot find Sugar with gnome-software in Fedora 20

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 8/29/2014 4:20 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
> GNOME Software Center, or Software [1] is the default software installer
> for Fedora 20.
>
> Sugar is not found in a search of Software.
>
> Richard Hughes, the owner of Fedora's Changes/AppInstaller [2], put out
> a call [3] for maintainers to ship an AppData specification [4], so that
> Software will find "registered" apps.
>
> I asked Richard how I could help fix this and this is from his reply.
>
>          [quote]
>          I assume you want to show the sugar-runner application.
>          According to
>          https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/failed.html#sugar-runner.desktop it's missing a Comment in the .desktop file that means we just can't show it in the search results. It's also missing an AppData file, so a long description and some screenshots.
>          
>          If you fix up the .desktop file, and/or add an AppData file that
>          validates, then do a build+update for f21 then it should
>          re-appear in the search results after a couple of days.
>          
>          Hope this helps,
>          
>          Richard
>          [/quote]
>
> Is anyone already working on this?
>
> Iain Brown Douglas
I tried to get sugar and sugar-runner added to the gnome-software app a 
while ago and was told definitively in GIMPNet #fedora-desktop that it 
was not going to happen. Good luck; I would really like to see this happen.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller
> [3]
> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/08/29/gnome-software-center-and-you/
> [4] http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
>
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