On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 December 2014 at 23:31, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: >> b.) Would it be helpful, friendlier, and better emphasize the special >> focus, if these group install items mentioned above were exposed in >> GNOME Software with an appropriate icon? > > We could do this right now, although I don't think "expose the entire > comps tree" makes a lot of sense. We need translations, icons, > screenshots, and of course approval from the Fedora/GNOME designers. > Addons would be a logical place for this, although I think it probably > needs more design thought about how to handle these "non-application" > metagroupings.
Sounds very reasonable. Qualifying my position: I'm fairly comfortable with yum/dnf group installs now, so this isn't a sticking point for me personally. This really is the Workstation WG's turf to define what kind of UI/UX they want to have for developers new to the platform. And I'm inclined to think keeping developers (even CLI dominant ones) away from the esoterics of platform packaging is a good thing. I don't know if Software will instinctually be their go to for such a thing, so that's also a question someone needs to answer. > Installing a compiler is something that *something* > needs to handle, I'm just not sure if that should be gnome-software > itself or something that *uses* gnome-software to do the correct thing > and to handle updates. Could maybe be in scope for Fedora dev assistant also. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DevelopersAssistant "Make the development on Fedora easier for beginners." "Try to install package containing setup for your favourite language." -- Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct