On 27 May 2015 at 09:32, Jaroslav Reznik jreznik@redhat.com wrote:
Is it GUI only or is there any chance to get at least TUI apps? Some as mc are pretty popular even in the group of GUI only users.
I think mc fails quite a few of the criteria: https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/blob/master/README.md -- apps without .desktop files for instance don't even make it into the logs.
The biggest reason of not including text programs is probably to avoid the slippery slope. Is a web service an application? What about text mode kernel development tools? Unless we can launch the application in the gnome-shell then we don't have a way to actually run the newly installed thing.
A few apps have found a way around these restrictions which is to include a .desktop file and .appdata.xml filr which launches a terminal with the command line tool running. Whether this is a fix or a hack is probably not for me to decide.
Richard