Displaying privilege requirements on Software Centers

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 18:17 +0200, Aleix Pol wrote:
> Hey,
> I wanted to display somehow which resources are going to be required
> by an application to the user, so he gets to know before (or after)
> installing an application.
> 
> Since there's quite some flatpak-specific semantics related I thought
> it could make sense to have some discussion about it first, since I'm
> guessing other front-ends will need the feature (and I don't know if
> it's implemented already, please correct me if I'm wrong) and it
> possibly doesn't make sense that all take different routes.
> 
> I haven't run it through our visual design group yet, but my
> impression is that we'll need an icon + text for each privilege.
> Seeing how complex it looks on the metadata file we possibly want to
> do some grouping as well.

Something extensible and translatable is definitely going to be
necessary for all those permissions that don't go through portals.