On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 14:57 +0200, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 14:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It would be better if applications, when the user tried to use a feature that lacks those extra packages, would at least hint what exact extra packages are missing. Even perhaps trigger yast on a click with those packages selected.
Carlos,
please read my follow-up mail in this thread, which explains what totem (the GNOME Video Player) already does in combination with PackageKit/GNOME-Software.
If a codec is missing, PK is instructed to find the feature. If it's available in a repo, it will be proposed for installation... if it's not found, it wouldn't help to show a random package name (which would be a wild guess). In the case of missing codecs, gnome-software instructs the user further with a web link.
oh, to make the conclusion out of this: all the stuff is already there in the distribution and proven to work. The fact that a lot of apps don't make use of the infrastructure is a different topic. -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>