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Bug 745322 - MATE apps showing in the Editor's Pick section
MATE apps showing in the Editor's Pick section
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.15.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-28 11:51 UTC by Elad Alfassa
Modified: 2015-03-02 15:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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2015-02-28 11:51 UTC, Elad Alfassa
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Description Elad Alfassa 2015-02-28 11:51:51 UTC
Created attachment 298152 [details]
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See attached screenshot.

It's obvious that we don't want this kind of apps there.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2015-02-28 19:17:34 UTC
Comment on attachment 298152 [details]
screenshot

Apps are apps... as long as they are not causing problems with straight-up copied icons, names and descriptions, I think there is no reason to shun them.

Arguably, the system monitor there does have this issue, but we brought this upone ourselves in this instance by using a 'standard' icon as app icon here.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2015-02-28 21:30:13 UTC
Shouldn't it be hidden if MATE is not listed in GNOME_SOFTWARE_COMPATIBLE_PROJECTS? Hiding confusing forks of our apps is exactly why that functionality was introduced.
Comment 3 Elad Alfassa 2015-03-01 08:42:54 UTC
The way I see it, the Editor's Pick section is meant to showcase high quality apps that we want to recommend to our users. Do we really want to recommend forks of GNOME apps?

In this screenshot you can see two mate forks of gnome apps: a gedit fork and a system-monitor fork.

I don't think we should ever recommend apps that duplicate the functionality of system apps, the place this system monitor takes could be used to show some app which is actually useful for people.

Note that in gnome-software on F21 I don't even see these apps (even when searching for them specifically), but on gnome-software on F22 I do see these app.
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2015-03-02 15:24:11 UTC
commit 79eaaec4e61373c5910f2c8bee3a673d0be0d86b
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 2 15:23:42 2015 +0000

    Only show compatible projects when getting the featured list
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745322