https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409862
--- Comment #15 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- Yes, the background here is that Discover was designed to be an "app store", and not so much a package manager. Currently, two things break the illusion: 1. Non-offline updates display the individual packages on the Updates page. This isn't a bug, but it is a UX problem IMO. Offline updates display packages all bunched up together into one big "System Updates" meta-item, and I think we should use that for online updates too. 2. You can still use Discover to install random .deb/.rpm/etc. package files. When you do this, they don't create any AppStream metadata on the system. As a result, Discover has no way of knowing which .desktop files on the system belong to safely uninstallable packages, and which are for core system components that you can't or shouldn't remove. Changing #1 is easy enough. But #2 is harder without turning Discover into a general-purpose package manager. A compromise might be some kind of "show packages" toggle, or an "all packages" item in the sidebar. But it would need to be very carefully done to avoid making promises it won't be able to keep. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
