appstream in Plasma

[Martin Gräßlin]

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
> <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
> 
>> 2016-04-07 15:08 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Riddell <jr at 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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