FWIW some distros like Kubuntu (neon?) use systemsettings for all of our system settings. So having separate places for all other settings is very poor user experience. And I do recall seeing in various places third party KCMs like systemd and feel that this absolutely should be supported. Cheers, Scarlett
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net> wrote: > 2016-04-07 15:08 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org>: > > Martin's thread on metadata got me wondering about if we should have > > appstream files in Plasma. It would be nice to have plasma-desktop in > > software installers for people who run another desktop and want to > > install it. There's also applications like system settings (which has > > dozens of plugins), khotkeys and kinfocenter which may or may not be > > useful for appstream. > > I'm at the GNOME Software hackfest right now (working mainly on > AppStream), and we briefly discussed this: Generally, adding desktops > to the SC isn't a great idea, because it's not really an application, > but a system component - being able to run more desktops than one is > more useful for distro developers and experienced users, and will be > very confusing for regular users, which are the target audience of > software centers. > > However, adding an AppStream metainfo file would be something I would > very much support! AppStream supports "generic components", so you > could just drop a file > "org.kde.plasma-desktop.metainfo.xml" containing > <component> > <name>Plasma Desktop</name> > <summary>....</summary> > ... (etc) > > which describes the Plasma Desktop. Software centers like Discover or > GNOME Software will not show that, but users can find it with > appstreamcli and would be able to install it using "appstreamcli > install org.kde.plasma-desktop". > > So: More metadata please! (But ideally no desktops in the SC) > > Cheers, > Matthias > > -- > Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
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