[packagekit] gpk-application user interaction (but stuck with Fedora...)

[Richard Hughes]

2009/8/9 Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se>:
> I think this (packages vs. applications) was mentioned earlier:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/03/05/application-installing/

Yes, this was what I was working on a few months ago. Note, it works,
packages have been built, and the feature is complete, but was
rejected by key people in the Fedora project, and thus got canned. It
would have got us an application installer, and we could have worked
with other distros rolling out new functionality. Alas, it was not to
be. Until somebody either talks to the Fedora infrastructure people on
my behalf and convinces them to allow the packages into the repos, or
does the feature in a way acceptable to Fedora, then I'm not going to
be pushing this. I've been burnt trying to push this functionality
into Fedora.

The review for the trivial app-install component is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488962 but all the
discussion for the fedora parts are here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488968

> Whether it would make for a "basic/advance" toggle or for separate
> applications (X-app-install/X-packagekit) altogether, I don't know.

Yes, I think a new mode for advanced/basic (defaulting to basic) would
be quite easy to do.

Richard.