Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/06/2013 05:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.11.2013 23:03, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: We don't have a way of telling which updates REQUIRE reboot(*)--but solving this problem by rebooting always is not right, in my opinion. This in

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.11.2013 23:03, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Przemek Klosowski > wrote: >> We don't have a way of telling which updates REQUIRE reboot(*)--but solving >> this problem by rebooting always is not right, in my opinion. > > This information is already available in

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-06 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > We don't have a way of telling which updates REQUIRE reboot(*)--but solving > this problem by rebooting always is not right, in my opinion. This information is already available in bodhi. It's probably not very accurate, but it is there

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/03/2013 08:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: However, since you didn't explained at all what are the issues you are facing with the new approach, and since you have only explained how you are doing on your 20 servers ( which is totally unrelated to the question of desktops,

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Scherer wrote: > As i say, we mostly have a fleet of laptop, and of course, the situation > would be different if this was a set of workstation, but alas, this is > not the case. It's true that the problem is harder for laptops, which are often more loosely administrated by necessity. >

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 4 November 2013 14:31, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> That's true in the _general_ case, and therefore the ability to have >> off-line updates is a good _general_ default. We should be able to do >> _much_ better for many common cases (at the

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 14:48 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > I like what ChromeOS > does where it has a rescue-ish partition, to do the upgrade, but > without something like btrfs that can switch roots on a running > filesystem that's basically impossible on Linux. This is precisely what https://wik

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 November 2013 14:31, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > That's true in the _general_ case, and therefore the ability to have > off-line updates is a good _general_ default. We should be able to do > _much_ better for many common cases (at the very least, a package that > only has one executable, or one

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 2 November 2013 17:47, Matthew Miller wrote: >> I'm not really excited about a lot of required rebooting, though -- I think >> that might be worse than the disease. We should have most of the information >> needed to determine if a reboot

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 November 2013 10:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: > If you're not using libxml2, you should be. I'm using GMarkup. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 04 novembre 2013 à 12:04 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > instead going the easy windows-way and say "ok, you have to reboot" > > it would be more worth to optimize the handling *after* updates > > without reboot and let the user decie wichi services are needed > > to restart > > Not

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.11.2013 12:49, schrieb Florian Weimer: > On 11/02/2013 09:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> instead going the easy windows-way and say "ok, you have to reboot" > > I don't think this is a technically accurate characterization of the Windows > update mechanism. Windows even allows > updat

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Florian Weimer
On 11/02/2013 09:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: instead going the easy windows-way and say "ok, you have to reboot" I don't think this is a technically accurate characterization of the Windows update mechanism. Windows even allows updating processes through in-memory patching and compiles most

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Sam 2 novembre 2013 21:02, Richard Hughes a écrit : > It's also impossible to do in a > race-free way on a multiuser system. Quite frankly, I'm surprised > online updates works as much as it does. It works as much as it does because people have made it work for years instead of giving up like

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - > On 1 November 2013 19:27, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > Cleaned up the appdata xml > > Thanks, > > > https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/master/misc/yumex.appdata.xml > > but I get errors from appdata-validate > > Can see what the problem is :( > > You've got some

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:23:28 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael Scherer wrote: > > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to > > take them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, > > but I strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that most >

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Scherer
Le dimanche 03 novembre 2013 à 14:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > Michael Scherer wrote: > > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take > > them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I > > strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that m

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: > I'd agree with you if the majority of updates weren't either packaging > tweaks or new upstream versions with little-to-no useful update text. "Packaging tweak" updates are not that common. And the fact that the update notes are useless doesn't necessarily mean the update

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 November 2013 13:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Fewer updates mean fewer bugfixes and thus more bugs! I'd agree with you if the majority of updates weren't either packaging tweaks or new upstream versions with little-to-no useful update text. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedorapro

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: > i am using updates-testing over years and often enough koji-packages too > there are not much "barely" and problemtaic tested updates at all > if someone wnats a system with less to zero updates he is using the > wrong distribution and better suited with RHEL +1, the frequen

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Scherer wrote: > When statistics cost you money, yeah, I think that's important to take > them in account. Maybe your employer do not care about this, but I > strongly suspect mine does, and I strongly suspect that most companies > do care about this as well. Company computers should get u

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 18:38 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 06:21:34PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > So, really, it's this related point that I'm concerned about now. We > > > _need_ > > > to do these things in coordination, not just push a situation into F20 > > > wh

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 06:21:34PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > So, really, it's this related point that I'm concerned about now. We _need_ > > to do these things in coordination, not just push a situation into F20 where > > we are telling our users to reboot everyday -- that's a pretty bad us

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 23:21, schrieb Matthias Clasen: > Then change the way that updates to the released distribution are > treated. As long as we don't constrain the constant stream of barely > tested updates, we *are* pretty much forcing our users to restart their > system frequently. i am using updates

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 17:46 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > So, really, it's this related point that I'm concerned about now. We _need_ > to do these things in coordination, not just push a situation into F20 where > we are telling our users to reboot everyday -- that's a pretty bad user > experien

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 02 novembre 2013 à 22:35 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 02.11.2013 22:29, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Ars technica summarize quite clearly the situation on this problem : > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/its-the-little-things-how-small-conundrums-make-man

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 08:02:51PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > update fails, you either get corrupted data and crashing application, > or a hosed rpmdb. In a related point, we need to reduce the number of > updates we present to the user in a massive way in a supposedly > "stable" distro. I thi

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Lukáš Tinkl
Dne 2.11.2013 22:13, Richard Hughes napsal(a): On 2 November 2013 21:08, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I thought applications shipping desktop files would be updated online, and other packages would trigger offline updates. Has this plan changed? Yes, everything requires an offline update now. Ri

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 22:29, schrieb Michael Scherer: > Ars technica summarize quite clearly the situation on this problem : > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/its-the-little-things-how-small-conundrums-make-many-hate-computers/ > > And I do not even speak of the users who reboot du

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 02 novembre 2013 à 21:40 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > Am 02.11.2013 21:35, schrieb Richard Hughes: > > On 2 November 2013 20:27, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> "lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr" shows any opened but deleted file > >> which is the case after updfates while applications are r

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 22:13, schrieb Richard Hughes: > On 2 November 2013 21:08, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> I thought applications shipping desktop files would be updated online, >> and other packages would trigger offline updates. Has this plan changed? > > Yes, everything requires an offline update

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 November 2013 21:08, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > I thought applications shipping desktop files would be updated online, > and other packages would trigger offline updates. Has this plan changed? Yes, everything requires an offline update now. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedor

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 20:35 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > Doesn't work with libreoffice, firefox or any application that loads > plugins or modules. I thought applications shipping desktop files would be updated online, and other packages would trigger offline updates. Has this plan changed? sig

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 21:35, schrieb Richard Hughes: > On 2 November 2013 20:27, Reindl Harald wrote: >> "lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr" shows any opened but deleted file >> which is the case after updfates while applications are running > > Doesn't work with libreoffice, firefox or any application that

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 November 2013 20:27, Reindl Harald wrote: > "lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr" shows any opened but deleted file > which is the case after updfates while applications are running Doesn't work with libreoffice, firefox or any application that loads plugins or modules. > hence that is what i use o

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 21:02, schrieb Richard Hughes: > On 2 November 2013 17:47, Matthew Miller wrote: >> I'm not really excited about a lot of required rebooting, though -- I think >> that might be worse than the disease. We should have most of the information >> needed to determine if a reboot is real

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 November 2013 17:47, Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm not really excited about a lot of required rebooting, though -- I think > that might be worse than the disease. We should have most of the information > needed to determine if a reboot is really necessary, shouldn't we? I hope we > can move to

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > Not update, we do all updates offline now. > > Ewww! Yuck! > Can you stop with these childish responses? As a KDE contributor, it is understandable if you don't agree with GNOME decisions but you don't have to

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:34:40PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > The logic I recently implemented for gnome-software 3.12 in F21 is to > check for new updates once per day, and download updates when they are > important (e.g. security updates), or when it has been a week since the > last time we

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 18:33 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 11:01 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > Sure. GNOME is a complete desktop, not a collection of packages > > designed to be replaced. > Personally, I see little benefit in prohibiting users from removing core

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 18:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 02.11.2013 18:16, schrieb Michael Catanzaro: > > The other change I want is for PackageKit to download updates weekly by > > default. Currently updates come daily, but daily offline updates would > > be completely absurd. All we have to d

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.11.2013 18:16, schrieb Michael Catanzaro: > The other change I want is for PackageKit to download updates weekly by > default. Currently updates come daily, but daily offline updates would > be completely absurd. All we have to do to support this is to change the > default value of one gsett

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 12:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Richard, who is "we" in this context? And what is "offline"? we = GNOME, via systemd offline = "Install Updates & Restart" [1]. Your computer shuts down, installs updates, shuts down again, and then boots back to GDM. This has been around

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:35:18PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > right-click->update in the app menu list, and other fun stuff like that? > Not update, we do all updates offline now. Richard, who is "we" in this context? And what is "offline"? -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: > Not update, we do all updates offline now. Ewww! Yuck! Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Ray Strode wrote: > Small errors here: > >Control want package repositories there is enabled for current > session > > maybe should be: > >Control what package repositories are enabled for the current > session > Thanks, fixed upstream Tim -- devel maili

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Sandro Mani
On 02.11.2013 00:33, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 11:01 +, Richard Hughes wrote: Sure. GNOME is a complete desktop, not a collection of packages designed to be replaced. Personally, I see little benefit in prohibiting users from removing core apps. If they don't like a p

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 11:01 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > Sure. GNOME is a complete desktop, not a collection of packages > designed to be replaced. Personally, I see little benefit in prohibiting users from removing core apps. If they don't like a particular program, why force it on them? Many p

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > Cleaned up the appdata xml > > https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/master/misc/yumex.appdata.xml Small errors here: Control want package repositories there is enabled for current session maybe should be: Control what package re

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, drago01 wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Tim Lauridsen >> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Matthias Clasen >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Great, thanks for doing that. >> >> >> >> N

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > You've got some odd non-utf8 char as the very first byte in the file: > > Looks like the editor has written an Unicode BOM, after removing that it validates ok Tim -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorap

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Tim Lauridsen > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Matthias Clasen > wrote: > >> > >> Great, thanks for doing that. > >> > >> Noticed while quickly looking over the file: > >> > >> - it is not valid xml

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 19:27, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > Cleaned up the appdata xml Thanks, > https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/master/misc/yumex.appdata.xml > but I get errors from appdata-validate > Can see what the problem is :( You've got some odd non-utf8 char as the very first byte in the fil

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> >> Great, thanks for doing that. >> >> Noticed while quickly looking over the file: >> >> - it is not valid xml: & needs to be escaped as & >> >> - 'gui' is not a great term to use.

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Great, thanks for doing that. > > Noticed while quickly looking over the file: > > - it is not valid xml: & needs to be escaped as & > > - 'gui' is not a great term to use. I'd suggest rewording the first > sentence maybe as 'Yum extender i

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:29:02PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > For those less brave, I've uploaded a screenshot here: > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gnome-software-shell-search.png H -- that little shopping bag doesn't _quite_ say "available but not installed" to me. I wond

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 15:36, Ryan Lerch wrote: > Or even kick off a removal of an application from the overview? Sure, that's certainly possible, I'd just need some UI mockups to work from. Note, core apps are not removable, so we'd have to have some kind of API to ask if an app is removable before

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 15:31, Bill Nottingham wrote: > So if it has a session service, and a shell provider integration, does that > mean we do overlays/highlighting on applications with updates pending in the > shell We don't do that at the moment, but we could add that as a feature in [upstream] bu

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Ryan Lerch
On Fri 01 Nov 2013 11:31:37 EDT, Bill Nottingham wrote: Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) said: On 1 November 2013 14:53, Matthew Miller wrote: Okay, thanks. This is really cool good stuff. Guess it's time to update my other laptop to Rawhide. :) For those less brave, I've uploaded a scre

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) said: > On 1 November 2013 14:53, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Okay, thanks. This is really cool good stuff. Guess it's time to update my > > other laptop to Rawhide. :) > > For those less brave, I've uploaded a screenshot here: > http://people.freedesktop.org/~

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 14:53, Matthew Miller wrote: > Okay, thanks. This is really cool good stuff. Guess it's time to update my > other laptop to Rawhide. :) For those less brave, I've uploaded a screenshot here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gnome-software-shell-search.png Also, if

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 10:07:11AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Adding this as a gnome shell search provider will make this *really* slick. > > I see that's https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707594, but I don't > > see it on my F20 test box. Is this going to be in gnome 3.10 or is it

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 15:00 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Pete Travis > wrote: > Hmm... It sounds like yumex would be much more discoverable if > it included an appdata file :) > > Done, > > https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/82198add9daabcfc

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 14:00, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/82198add9daabcfcabe9d8bb7a28ef3190e920d7/misc/yumex-appdata.xml There are numerous problems with that file, and it's not going to be used by the parser. If you read http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appda

Re: gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 10:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 09:58:19AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Speaking purely for myself and my own usage, I think this distinction makes > > plenty of sense. Except I don't even really want the old packagekit tools. > > If I'm lookin

gnome software shell search provider? [Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime?]

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 09:58:19AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Speaking purely for myself and my own usage, I think this distinction makes > plenty of sense. Except I don't even really want the old packagekit tools. > If I'm looking for something desktop-application-y, an "app store" seems > lik

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > Hmm... It sounds like yumex would be much more discoverable if it included > an appdata file :) Done, https://github.com/timlau/yumex/blob/82198add9daabcfcabe9d8bb7a28ef3190e920d7/misc/yumex-appdata.xml Tim -- devel mailing list devel@list

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:01:57AM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > We wanted to write an application that rocked for a certain set of > users, rather than write a generic UI that wasn't really usable by > anyone. Also, given that you can easily install the old packagekit > package tools using the ap

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:14 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> We can't make everybody happy all the time, sure, but there must be >> something that can be done. >> * Add a release note describing how to get a GUI that shows all packages? >> * Make sure

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: >> >> Packages are not interesting to desktop users, they >> are just an implementation detail of how to get something done. e.g. >> "Play my media file", "Open this document someone se

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: >> Also, given that you can easily install the old packagekit >> package tools using the application installer, there's really no >> reason to get upset at all. > > Yet people visibly _a

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > Packages are not interesting to desktop users, they > are just an implementation detail of how to get something done. e.g. > "Play my media file", "Open this document someone sent to me". Anyone > wanting to do things like "install a mysql

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > Also, given that you can easily install the old packagekit > package tools using the application installer, there's really no > reason to get upset at all. Yet people visibly _are_ upset in this thread, so there's something wrong with that

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 03:19, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Having as the only GUI package management application on your spin one that > does not even offer all packages is very broken. You forgot to type "in my opinion"... >> We have a notion of 'core app' - for things that 'come with the OS'. We >> don't

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 November 2013 06:51, Pete Travis wrote: > Hmm... It sounds like yumex would be much more discoverable if it included > an appdata file :) Agreed. At the moment applications without an AppData file are shown below applications with AppData in the search results. See http://alt.fedoraproject.o

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 08:03 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Why would this be useful? Just to be "fashionable"? No. If you haven't been following the design of gnome-software, the intent is to make it easier for users to install applications that they want, without having to dig up what package nam

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-11-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/01/2013 04:58 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 04:19 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Having as the only GUI package management application on your spin one that does not even offer all packages is very broken. It isn't a *package* management application. It's an *application* manag

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 31, 2013 11:43 PM, "Tim Lauridsen" wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: >> >> It isn't a *package* management application. It's an *application* >> management application, ie., it only handles packages that are desktop >> applications (and therefore have desktop

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > It isn't a *package* management application. It's an *application* > management application, ie., it only handles packages that are desktop > applications (and therefore have desktop files associated with them). > > I'm guessing power users tha

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 04:19 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Having as the only GUI package management application on your spin one > that > does not even offer all packages is very broken. It isn't a *package* management application. It's an *application* management application, ie., it only handles

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:31 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > I know Richard has pushed hard to get appdata for apps, but it do help > the > end user, if lot of apps in gnome-software dont have any descriptions. > > > Look at System -> File Tools -> Caja-actions configuration tool > > > How should

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: > It is an application installer, first and foremost. Installing > backgrounds/icons/themes is not a priority. Having as the only GUI package management application on your spin one that does not even offer all packages is very broken. > We have a notion of 'core app' - fo

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:31 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: >> Look at System -> File Tools -> Caja-actions configuration tool > > Get the cinnamon guys to fork the nautilus appdata ? I'm sure it will > only need minor adjustments... :-) Caja is actually from MATE, Cinnamon

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:31 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Clasen > wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 12:13 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > I have tested gnome-software to see the current state, > compaired to > > gpk

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 12:13 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > I have tested gnome-software to see the current state, compaired to > > gpk in F19, there is a lot stuff there cant be done. > > > > > > 1. You cant install backgrounds / icons >

Re: Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 12:13 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > I have tested gnome-software to see the current state, compaired to > gpk in F19, there is a lot stuff there cant be done. > > > 1. You cant install backgrounds / icons It is an application installer, first and foremost. Installing backgr

Is Gnome Software ready for primetime ?

2013-10-31 Thread Tim Lauridsen
I have tested gnome-software to see the current state, compaired to gpk in F19, there is a lot stuff there cant be done. 1. You cant install backgrounds / icons 2. Not all application found in the menu, can be found under installed, you can search for them and find them, but cant remove them (ex.