[packagekit] gpk-install-mime-type - order of items listed ?

[Rex Dieter]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> On 7 April 2010 00:35, David Timms
> <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> And any specific package might still end up being the first in the list !
>> I agree with the potential of the political statement.
> 
> Sure. I'm willing to choose a default, as long as it's not hardcoded
> in the daemon and all processed by the frontends.
> 
>> Here is a small plan:
>> 1. Could we provide "column sorter" buttons/UI so that we can sort by
>> either the packagename or summary (what about most recently added to the
>> repository, and most recently updated, longest time in repository ;-) ) ?
> 
> I think for the first step we just sort by a heuristic, where if
> you're on GNOME, then gnome-*, gtk*, g* packages get listed first, and
> similar for XFCE and KDE.

.desktop files can contain additional categories for GTK, Qt, KDE, etc... 
perhaps that could be used?  (I think that means additional metadata is 
required though...) 

-- Rex