On 27 March 2014 02:46, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > Unfortunately, none of them will be able to enjoy GNOME Software, due > to the fact that there is no active development of a pacman backend > for packagekit. Arch Linux users are missing out on a major part of > the GNOME eco-system.
There are two problem here. One is that indeed, the PackageKit arch backend is under-maintained, and doesn't support the newer features that gnome-software uses so heavily (e.g. the new filter enums). The second is that arch does not generate AppStream metadata, so even if the PackageKit backend worked well enough, there would be no rich content (long translated descriptions, screenshots, ratings, etc) to show. If anyone from arch wants to make this work, please grab me on #PackageKit on freenode and we can talk in more detail. Richard _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
