Stumbled upon this bug report and I'm not sure how to respond to it; and whether it relates to https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/108
Bug 1769967 - gnome-software is recommending non-free software with large colourful banners https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1769967
I don't know what the UI looks like to get into this situation. But for sure I have no way of knowing, or inferring, that merely enabling Flathub as a repository means I'm also wanting proprietary software to be recommended by GNOME Software.
I don't even totally feel comfortable showing proprietary software in searches, just because the user enabled a repo that contains some non-free software, something they have no way of knowing in advance.
GNOME Software -> Preferences
( ) Show proprietary (non-free) software in searches ( ) Promote proprietary (non-free) software
Or perhaps even simpler, but it lumps in two the passive (search) and the active (featured) presentation of proprietary software:
( X ) Do not show proprietary software
The above show my expected defaults in Fedora Workstation.
Is there a way to filter flathub applications based on free/non-free? And only show free by default?
I'd make this first on our agenda for tomorrow's meeting....
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:22 pm, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Stumbled upon this bug report and I'm not sure how to respond to it; and whether it relates to https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/108
It's really an entirely separate issue. Nothing in #108 should be taken to indicate the WG has approved advertisement banners recommending proprietary software applications. (It hasn't.) I think we have a consensus that we want it to be easy for users to find software that they are searching for (so it would be nice if a user searching for Dropbox finds Dropbox), but actively advertising proprietary software seems much more controversial. It's unclear to me what the benefit of doing this is.
It looks like these banners are curated upstream [1] and added in [2], so it's nothing to do with Flathub. I see Slack there too. When displayed in GNOME Software, the Slack logo is programatically overlaid onto the advertisement banner, which I assume we did not get permission from Slack to do. Seems this doesn't happen for the Dropbox banner.
These are new in F31 btw, so older Fedoras are not affected.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/tree/master/data/assets [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/issues/749
Opened an issue, and tagged it meeting. Feel free to edit the subject for better clarity.
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