I had occasion to look up how eclipse is presented in gnome-software today. Arguably one of the flagship applications for a developer workstation, sadly, the presentation can be improved.
Things I noticed:
- It shows up as '3rd party' in the list. We really need to fix this so that the only stuff that gets a 3rd party label is actually 3rd party. In its current form, it is too unreliable to be used.
- The details page lists a number of interesting plugins in the description, and there is a list of add-ons that gnome-software offers to install. Sadly, the overlap between these two lists is very small. Why is that ? Just one example, CDT: Installing eclipse-cdt on the the commandline works just fine, but it does not show up in the list of available add-ons. Why is that, and can we fix it ?
On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 14:41 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
- The details page lists a number of interesting plugins in the
description, and there is a list of add-ons that gnome-software offers to install. Sadly, the overlap between these two lists is very small. Why is that ? Just one example, CDT: Installing eclipse-cdt on the the commandline works just fine, but it does not show up in the list of available add-ons. Why is that, and can we fix it ? --
And https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Eclipse%C2%A0has yet another (much longer) list of plugins - would be nice to make all of them show up as add-ons.
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