Parsing the result of this query " http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=.desktop&submit=Search" basically give you a list of real applications. However, ubuntu website only returned the first 100 items found. What a pity. Otherwise we can have a good, realtime, and realiable source of this list. Is it possible to get support from ubuntu people? A list for real applications sounds reasonable.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Stefano <eco.st...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > 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 >
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