"Software not found" Runner

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue Jul 26 12:15:32 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:16:41 PM CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 26 July 2016 13:01:10 Aleix Pol wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> Last week I put together this runner, thought it might be useful, so
>> >> if you type in krunner an application but it's not installed, it will
>> >> offer to open Discover to install it (any software center in fact).
>> >>
>> >> Do we want to push this for the next plasma release?
>> >> If so, do we want it enabled by default?
>> >>
>> >> You can look and test here:
>> >> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fapol%2Fappstreamrunner.git
>> >
>> > looks like a good idea.
>> > maybe kdeplasma-addons?
>> > i would be fine with having it enabled by default
>>
>> Should be in desktop or workspace or discover (<- order of preference)
>> if we want it by default IMO. Not all distros install addons by
>> default.
>
> If it's tied to discover, discover.git could have it. If it's "just"
> packagekit, it could be plasma-workspace or kdeplasma-addons (I personally
> don't care much, just wanted to comment that it doesn't have to be in
> kdeplasma-addons or plasma-workspace).

It doesn't use PackageKit, it uses Appstream for listing and when
triggered it opens the software center of choice.
There's no Discover dependency.

Aleix


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