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Bug 612628 - offer to install uninstalled app via app search box
offer to install uninstalled app via app search box
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-packagekit
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
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Assigned To: gnome-packagekit-maint
gnome-packagekit-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-11 20:15 UTC by Máirín Duffy
Modified: 2014-08-06 14:28 UTC
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Description Máirín Duffy 2010-03-11 20:15:06 UTC 
So I had a somewhat freshly installed Fedora 12 machine. I was getting ready to do my taxes and wanted to create a spreadsheet to help organize my work. I went to the activities overview and typed 'open office' - but I hadn't yet installed open office or open office calc. Bummer, I had to open up a terminal and install openoffice.org-calc first.

It would be awesome if you type the name of an app that is available but not installed, if some package kit integration could offer to install the app for you. So application search searches a cache of uninstalled apps as well as the apps you've got installed.
Comment 1 ahatomastarday 2011-08-18 13:14:01 UTC 
This sounds like a good idea, although it was implemented in Unity (Ubuntu's shell) and everybody hated it. It was distracting and unacceptably slow (actually froze the computer for some seconds). Both design and implementation need to be very well thought if this ever comes to GNOME Shell.
Comment 2 Máirín Duffy 2011-08-18 14:45:06 UTC 
we have it in fedora when you type a command on the command line that isn't installed and it works pretty well so i do think it is possible to do it right...
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2012-03-21 14:00:56 UTC 
We now have support for external search providers, which means that this functionality should be implemented by the app store / package manager frontend.
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2014-08-06 14:27:38 UTC 
We do this now using gnome-software since F20+copr. :)
Comment 5 Máirín Duffy 2014-08-06 14:28:55 UTC 
woohoo, sweet!!!! \o/ thank you richard this rocks!