[packagekit] Dynamic Groups in Packagekit

[Tim Lauridsen]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tim Lauridsen (tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com) said: 
>> just reading a long heated debate on fedora-devel about yum 
>> categories/group vs groups in PackageKit. Cutting away the flaming to 
>> get some constructive points IMHO.
>>
>> 1. the categories/groups used in the installer is different than the one 
>>     defined in packagekit, that is confusing for the user.
>>
>> 2. the packagekit groups are hardcoded, so the distro has no way to add 
>> special groups, important to the distro.
>>
>> The reasons that current pk groups are hardcoded are:
>> * limit the number of groups
>> * add specific icons to the groups
>> * translate the group names.
> 
> FWIW, in Fedora/RHEL/etc:
> 
> - there are translations in the metadata itself
> - we use a mapping from the yum group ids to icons that the backend can use as well
> 
> Bill
> 

Thanks, Bill

i have already added support for translated group name and description 
in the yumBackend, but there need some changes in packagekit core to set 
the locale in the backend.

I aware of the group icons in comps-extras, i have used it yumex, it is 
the plan to use these icons.

Tim