Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-05 Thread Chuck Rolke
Still there is a ton of things that are trivial with CLI and surprisingly hard without it. Not all of them are geeky or developy: just the other day, I was looking at an SD card from my camera; the JPEGS were in a standard DCIM directory, but the video files were hidden under multiple

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com*/ wrote on Fri, 2 Jan 2015 10:47:21 +: On 1 January 2015 at 22:25, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: it's just funny that something like gedit and Windows notepad can be considered 'applications' but GCC can't! We're using this

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 2 January 2015 at 06:48, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a GNOME Application, but doesn't seem to be OK for Fedora application. There's no such thing as a

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a GNOME Application, but doesn't seem to be OK for Fedora application. There's no such thing as a Fedora application. It seems that many command line utilities in Security

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Apart from the Application discussion, I really like to see a new Development Libraries concept in Gnome software just like Fonts and Input sources, which lets a developer to look for libraries and rate them. Some of them can even have screenshots: GUI libraries (Qt,

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: It seems that many command line utilities in Security spin can be considered applications since security spin provides .desktop files and icons for many of them! No, we ignore any with the ConsoleOnly hint. But why is an interactive TUI with a .desktop file not an

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com*/ wrote on Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:48:51 +: On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a GNOME Application, but doesn't seem to be OK for Fedora application. There's no such

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Les Howell
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 10:47 +, Richard Hughes wrote: On 1 January 2015 at 22:25, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: it's just funny that something like gedit and Windows notepad can be considered 'applications' but GCC can't! We're using this definition here:

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Les Howell hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: My question, then would be what about applications that require input at startup? How does this fit with the practice of chainables such as grep -n temp *| tail -f | tee foo.txt The original premise of *nix systems was

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 2 January 2015 at 13:30, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 12:36 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 06:48, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/02/2015 08:48 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: Okay, lets do a thought experiment. Is a console application anything that exists in /usr/bin? If not, what additional rules are required for a sane set? Are all files in /usr/bin applications? Actually, yes, I believe that every one of them

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 12:36 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 06:48, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 11:45, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. And I say that it might be OK for a GNOME Application, but

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org*/ wrote on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:43:40 -0600: On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:12 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: Are CLI tools welcome in Gnome Software? No, we don't consider CLI tools to be applications, and only applications should be displayed in GNOME

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2015-01-01 Thread Alec Leamas
On 01/01/15 23:25, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:43:40 -0600: On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:12 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: Are CLI tools welcome in Gnome Software? No, we don't consider CLI tools to be applications, and only

CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2014-12-23 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
to subscribe without a FAS account? It occurred to me that we are encouraged to upstream Gnome Software app metadata, but I don't use Gnome. Are CLI tools welcome in Gnome Software? I guess I could contribute a French translation, and we could take screenshots of Gnome's terminal. Would

Re: CLI tools in Gnome Software?

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:12 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: Are CLI tools welcome in Gnome Software? No, we don't consider CLI tools to be applications, and only applications should be displayed in GNOME Software. See also: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/application-basics.html.en