On 25/08/2011 00:34, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Le Wednesday 24 August 2011 à 23:27 +0200, Stefano a écrit : >> new branch and new fats-search engine for the Lubuntu Software Center, >> of course is still incomplete, hope will be ready for 12.04. >> get the branch: bzr branch lp:lubuntu-software-center > > Thank you for the update. It starts to be interesting and useful :) > > Just some comments : > - software-center is beginning to move to packagekit backend, instead of > the aptdaemon one. You should probably have a look at it if you want to > to do more complex operations with the package manager. Fortunately, the > concepts of aptdaemon and packagekit are the same, it should not block > your UI or the way your software-center behave. > > - 1 feature that IMO a software-center must have, is the ability to show > only "real" applications, not the list of all packages. As far as I > know, it's not implemented in packagekit yet. 1 solution, is to parse > the directory /usr/share/app-install/desktop/, which contain all the > applications on Ubuntu repository (each .desktop file represent 1 > application). > > Also, you will need at some point a proper build system, translation > support etc .. but it can be added later. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne >
yes, i had taked a look to packagekit, i will look again. of course we need a way to know if a package is a real application, are app-install and app-install-data installed by default on lubuntu? alternatively we can use a simple text file containing a list of the real-applications-package. e.g. #apps.list firefox chromium evolution thunderbird ... Regards Stephen Smally P.S. new update, indipendent search entry for available and installed sections _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
