Re: GNOME Color Manager

[Matthias Klumpp <k matthias12 gmail com>]

2016-01-18 17:55 GMT+01:00 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.

No really... I would propose the following:
 * Add a compulsory_for_desktop=GNOME tag to the apps in question
 * Make GNOME-Software not show those compulsory apps at all, not just
disallow removals.
 * Only show a compulsory app if there is an addon ehancing it.

Cheers,
    Matthias

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