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["Alejandro J. Cura" <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Rodney Dawes
<rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 11:01 -0300, Alejandro J. Cura wrote:
>> I agree with this point: when a click package has both a scope and an
>> app, either the scope should take precedence or the devel should be
>> able to choose how it's displayed in the store results (as an app or
>> as a scope).
>
> It should display as both an app and a scope. The way it is now is due
> to a limitation in the way packages with more than one app are handled.
> Even if your package has multiple apps (which is possible), only the
> first will appear in the store, and we only really handle a single app
> in the package reasonably well in general. This needs some thought in
> terms of implementation details, but I don't think it needs a bug with a
> lot of discussion.

I've seen this first with the "Untappd scope", so: No, it should not
be shown automatically as both an app and a scope in the store. As
pointed in this thread, developers consider the main focus of their
package to be either an app or a scope.

My proposal is to find some simple way to give the developer of a
package some control over this option: whether to show the package in
question in the store as a scope or as an app.

For example, we could add a new optional field to the click manifest
that points at the main click hook (eg: "main-hook: untappd"), and
with a seemingly small change in the client and the server we could
provide devels with control over this.
This is the kind of small fix I think we should be discussing in a bug.


> It's also possible for a package to only provide an online accounts
> provider as well. But those will not show up in the store scope at all,
> and there will be no way to get a preview to uninstall it. This is a
> general problem beyond just scopes and apps, which affects any general
> content provided in a package. We're going to need to fix the store to
> be able to deal with all of these situations.

At this point the store has zero support to show clicks with only
online accounts in them, or with any content other than scopes and
apps.
They should all be caught by the app review tools, and not allowed
into the store. If not, it's a bug in the review tools.
Any change in other direction needs plenty of design work before we
tackle it, so I propose the smaller change above to give devels what
they are currently requesting.

cheers,
-- 
alecu