Comments on: How about something like this?

By: Artem Vakhitov

Artem Vakhitov — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:05:34 +0000

Thanks, Richard!

By: hughsie

hughsie — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:53:26 +0000

Artem:

cd po
make PackageKit.pot

By: Artem Vakhitov

Artem Vakhitov — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:17:55 +0000

Hi Richard, a little offtopic here. I’d like to help with Russian localization in my spare time but can’t find a POT file in the tarballs. Moreover, the POT file doesn’t seem to get built when I run make. Where can I get it? Can you make it available in the tarballs with future releases?

By: Nicolas Mailhot

Nicolas Mailhot — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:48:25 +0000

@jef spaleta

Even assuming mugshot sampling was not hopelessly biased, popularity stats only give you the current state. Ordering by popularity would thus be a major drag when new features are introduced and the distro really wants users to move from application A to application B.

So you need a layer when the distro can explicitly specify “the preferred app for foo use is A B or C”. Currently our layer for this is comps (that’s what all the default required optional etc stuff is). Now current comps syntax may not be rich enough for PK use, but that just means comps must be extended (or replaced by something else. There is no room for X different package classification files in the distro.

By: hilbert

hilbert — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:00:36 +0000

It would be simply wonderful!

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« pollycoke :) — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:47:35 +0000

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By: drago01

drago01 — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:05:28 +0000

How does this work when there is no network connection?
Will it just display the “Open With” window instead?

By: foo

foo — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:36:49 +0000

Debian has popcon.debian.org, IIRC Ubuntu has their own server for that. On Debian, libept can associate popcon data with individual packages.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:03:04 +0000

Like a few other people have mentioned, you might want to suggest a sensible default. Within the gnome or KDE environments, you might want to have an option to toggle the display of non GTK+/QT applications for the sake of better desktop integration and all that.

I am thinking about music players especially here, there are a million in the repos, and perhaps suggesting the most popular for the current desktop environment would be the best for the user, who doesnt know their rhythmboxes from the banshees.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:04:18 +0000

For Debian-based distros, the debtags data (see the Tags: in Packages) seems much more suited than using desktop files. I’m not sure how mime-types are mapped to works-with-format:: though.