Am 2016-04-07 18:01, schrieb Scarlett Clark:
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.
But Kubuntu uses Plasma and systemsettings is installed. So for Kubuntu
it just doesn't matter whether there is appstream data for
systemsettings. In fact it would be bad, why list something which the
user has installed and should not uninstall.
And I do recall seeing in various places third party KCMs like systemd
and feel that this absolutely should be supported.
Sure, 3rd party can install to integrate with Plasma. That's fine. But
not a reason to have systemsettings available outside of Plasma.
Cheers
Martin
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
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