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Bug 735183 - Do something about apps that ship multiple "frontends"
Do something about apps that ship multiple "frontends"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-21 19:01 UTC by Elad Alfassa
Modified: 2014-08-28 15:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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2014-08-22 09:45 UTC, Elad Alfassa 		Details

Description Elad Alfassa 2014-08-21 19:01:37 UTC 
Some apps ship both Qt and GTK "frontends" with the same name tag and icon.

This means you see two apps that look duplicate in the search results. We should do something about it.

Maybe if an app has both Qt and GTK versions we should hide the Qt version under gnome and hide the GTK version under kde?
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2014-08-22 01:59:35 UTC 
I don't think we want to do anything that would promote the idea that having qt and gtk frontends is expected. And we do want to show good applications, regardless which toolkit or language they are written with.

Can you name some examples ?
Comment 2 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-22 09:45:16 UTC 
Created attachment 284172 [details]
screeenshot

Here's one example.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2014-08-22 14:39:25 UTC 
Ugh, that is bad.  If only we had a way to prevent multiple apps from having the same name....
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2014-08-28 15:00:29 UTC 
commit d0bd3fff29dd79dfd0b93bbc09a4818f234687d3
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 28 15:57:35 2014 +0100

    Do not show QT versions of applications where a GTK version is available
    
    This only affects searching and GNOME users can still see the QT version in
    'Installed' and 'Updates' if it is installed manually.
    Apper (KDE) probably wants to do the same thing, but the other way around.
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735183