*** Bug 684505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The dash doesn't have a trash icon any more. We could potentially add an uninstall option to application launcher context menus though.

Allan, but it will nice and give shell a good consistency if we can uninstall/install (install when Software core-app will be done) in the same way we add favorites, drag and drop. And also a context menu.

But I don't know if it is necessary as it is in other systems like android or windows, where we have a lot of rubbish applications (games that you play 2 hours and you want to uninstall, repeated applications with the same purpose etc.)
I usually haven't got this issue in linux/gnome systems.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Allan, but it will nice and give shell a good consistency if we can
> uninstall/install (install when Software core-app will be done) in the same way
> we add favorites, drag and drop. And also a context menu.
...

I don't think consistency makes sense here: removing from favourites and uninstalling are quite different. Uninstalling is a serious operation - it should be explicit. Also, while the drag and drop metaphor is appropriate for moving something around, it doesn't conceptually map onto uninstalling. (It is the same with files - you can drag a file to the trash, but permanently removing requires an explicit action.)

Allan, I see your point, so I agree.
Context menu will be ok.

Is this something we are still considering, or do we leave this job to Software (yay for that!)?

One option would be a right-click 'Show in Software'. That would get you to the page with the big red button and let your remove in 2 clicks

Created attachment 258816 [details] [review]
Add a 'Show Details' menuitem in the app picker

Add a menu item that shows the details of the application
in gnome-software.

Review of attachment 258816 [details] [review]:

Sure

Review of attachment 258816 [details] [review]:

First of all, spaces, not tabs.

::: js/ui/appDisplay.js
@@ +1572,3 @@
+	} else if (child == this._showDetailsMenuItem) {
+	    let id = this._source.app.get_id();
+	    GLib.spawn_async (null,

I'd like to see g_desktop_app_info_launch_with_uris or something instead of just raw spawning so we get startup-notification.

Failing that, please use Util.spawn_async.

Review of attachment 258816 [details] [review]:

First of all, spaces, not tabs.

::: js/ui/appDisplay.js
@@ +1572,3 @@
+	} else if (child == this._showDetailsMenuItem) {
+	    let id = this._source.app.get_id();
+	    GLib.spawn_async (null,

I'd like to see g_desktop_app_info_launch_with_uris or something instead of just raw spawning so we get startup-notification.

Failing that, please use Util.spawn_async.

It would be nicer to activate the action directly using a dbus call, but I lack the gjs chops to do that...

Attachment 258816 [details] pushed as 3cc7112 - Add a 'Show Details' menuitem in the app picker

*** Bug 761249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think that it would look a lot nicer if all the information was directly displayed in gnome-shell rather than opening a new window. Similar that is to how it is done in Unity. But that's just my opinion, and I know this bug has already been marked as "RESOLVED FIXED" so probably nobody will really care about it, but I thought I would add it anyway.