GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735183
Do something about apps that ship multiple "frontends"
Last modified: 2014-08-28 15:00:29 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?
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 ?
Created attachment 284172 [details] screeenshot Here's one example.
Ugh, that is bad. If only we had a way to prevent multiple apps from having the same name....
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