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

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:25 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> 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.

I thought, too, that this is unlikely.

GNOME Software Center has ambitions to automagically find "Applications"
- and  only packagers have to be concerned with packages and
dependencies, not users, my understanding.

A quick search of the groups listed by
yum grouplist
suggests that Libre Office is the only current "group" to be found by
Software.

Thus Sugar would be leading the way if we succeed!

When I write an AppData specification [4] for Sugar, what will it be
registered to?

Something which PackageKit can recognise as equal to

yum groupinstall @sugar-desktop sugar-runner

But is it doable?

Iain
> >
> > [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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