[packagekit] Store

[Anders F Björklund]

Gareth Foster wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe I should be doing this through Bugzilla, but anyway, about PackageKit.
> 
> It'd be nice if the GUI could be a little more friendly.
> 
> Firstly, why do I always see x86_64 and x86 versions of everything on Fedora? Say if I searched for the NVIDIA drivers, I'd see a confusing list of packages, and every one of them twice.
> 
> Following on from that, wouldn't it be nice to have this list simplified? Really, I need to see 2 items, NVIDIA akmod, and NVIDIA kmod, sort of bundles of other RPMs that are shown as one in PackageKit. Is that sort of thing possible?

If you check the "Filters > Only Native packages" and
"Filters > Only Newest packages" it should be "better".

> Also, it'd be much better to see icons for these installable items. Things like system libraries I think, ought to be hidden for the basic use case, with an option somewhere to show them. Most of the time, the user just wants to see a list of Apps (there, I said it).
> 
> While we're at it, what about star ratings for said apps?

Installing apps (sic) with PK is in another project:

http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream

> Also, I always thought it'd be nice if web sites could host a simple file, say we're talking XChat. The XChat web site can have an "Install now with PackageKit" icon, that links to a simple file that will be launched in PackageKit and tell it anything it needs to install XChat on any distro. The icon could be a stock thing for any web site to use, with Gnome 3.0 and PackageKit type branding.

I think the .catalog files were supposed to do this:

http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs

> One last point, is there anything that could be done to encourage (admittedly closed source) game developers to Linux through PackageKit? Much like Steam and the respective App Stores have done for Apple and Android.

Presumably: easier packaging and payment models ?

> I hope these ideas and thoughts are useful anyway. Thanks for a great piece of software!

Seems to be more about Fedora than PackageKit...

--anders