Re: GNOME Software Integration

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org> wrote:
> > > I believe it's not possible to do this outside of epiphany yet, but it
> > > should be fairly simple. The API you need to expose is
> > > lib/ephy-web-app-utils.h:ephy_web_application_get_application_list()
> >
> > Would this meaning linking against epiphany?
>
> Of the top of my head, you can't really link against ephy anymore, we
> are not shipping a shared library since plugins were removed.
>
> We could, of course, ship a small shared library for web app management
> if this makes sense for GNOME software, although the code is simple enough,
> it is probably cleaner than just copy-pasting it.

It some point I would like to require that Epiphany be installed as a
part of GNOME (and not be removable). It is intended as a core app,
after all. However, we also need to anticipate that some distros may
not agree. :)

...
> Now this is not that important in the long run, epiphany
> being the only place where apps can be managed is a shortcoming of not having yet
> a way to do it that is akin to standard applications. Hopefully integration
> with GNOME software will make this unnecessary, and then web apps won't need
> to be managed from Epiphany at all.

Right, the idea behind this feature is that Software will take over
web app management from Epiphany - so we need to know that's OK.

Allan