Re: GNOME Color Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 17 January 2016 at 22:05, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> We've been doing a review of GNOME modulesets on the release team list,
> trying to decide what belongs in core and should be installed by
> default. gnome-color-manager is currently not in core, but it is
> "required" by gnome-control-center, so we are very likely going to move
> it to core.

Right, makes sense.

> I notice each desktop file has either NoDisplay=true or
> NotShowIn=GNOME. (This is good, since we don't want the app itself to
> be user visible.) But it does have an appdata file, so it appears in
> GNOME Software and can be uninstalled there, even though it doesn't
> show up in the overview. That is not good. Should the appdata file be
> removed, or should it be blacklisted in GNOME Software? Could you
> please take care of this?

I can. It's got an AppData to allow it to be installed in other
software centers, e.g. in XFCE or KDE and we're missing the API to do
something like NotShowIn in the AppStream spec.

> I'm also planning to add a Recommends: gnome-color-manager to the
> Fedora control-center package, since I notice that is missing.

Makes sense.

> P.S. On a related note, we need to decide what to do with these bugs;
> please check them out:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760697
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760717

I'll talk about them with Kalev when he returns. Thanks for letting me know.

Richard.