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[PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Parsing the result of this query "
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=.desktop&submit=Search";
basically give you a list of real applications. However, ubuntu website only
returned the first 100 items found.
What a pity. Otherwise we can have a good, realtime, and realiable source of
this list.
Is it possible to get support from ubuntu people? A list for real
applications sounds reasonable.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 25/08/2011 00:34, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 24 August 2011 à 23:27 +0200, Stefano a écrit :
> >> new branch and new fats-search engine for the Lubuntu Software Center,
> >> of course is still incomplete, hope will be ready for 12.04.
> >> get the branch: bzr branch lp:lubuntu-software-center
> >
> > Thank you for the update. It starts to be interesting and useful :)
> >
> > Just some comments :
> > - software-center is beginning to move to packagekit backend, instead of
> > the aptdaemon one. You should probably have a look at it if you want to
> > to do more complex operations with the package manager. Fortunately, the
> > concepts of aptdaemon and packagekit are the same, it should not block
> > your UI or the way your software-center behave.
> >
> > - 1 feature that IMO a software-center must have, is the ability to show
> > only "real" applications, not the list of all packages. As far as I
> > know, it's not implemented in packagekit yet. 1 solution, is to parse
> > the directory /usr/share/app-install/desktop/, which contain all the
> > applications on Ubuntu repository (each .desktop file represent 1
> > application).
> >
> > Also, you will need at some point a proper build system, translation
> > support etc .. but it can be added later.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
>
> yes, i had taked a look to packagekit, i will look again.
> of course we need a way to know if a package is a real application, are
> app-install and app-install-data installed by default on lubuntu?
> alternatively we can use a simple text file containing a list of the
> real-applications-package.
> e.g.
> #apps.list
> firefox
> chromium
> evolution
> thunderbird
> ...
>
> Regards
> Stephen Smally
>
> P.S. new update, indipendent search entry for available and installed
> sections
>
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