I did research into this a while ago, and for a program to appear in the index, it has to have a special note in it's .desktop fine. That is fine and doable, however, there is no way to regenerate the index (like via an apt trigger), so the programs don't show up in add/remove.
This also means that all categories but "supported applications" are lying, because more programs are "available" in synaptic (ppa's & third- party repositories). -- Impossible for third-parties to add entries to Add/Remove https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241482 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
