On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:23 PM Lubos Kocman via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
Hello openSUSE!
I had an action item to come up with a quick desktop launcher for software.opensuse.org. I did go minimal with simple-xdg open and a custom icon as per advice of DimStar.
The launcher is called software-o-o-launcher. I'd like to propose to have it pre-installed on every new desktop installation.
It was initially submitted to X11:Utilities (next to opensuse-welcome, which server similar purpose). https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1120637
software-o-o launcher (see the screenshot link above) shows up after typing "software" in your desktop of choice. Which is what I hope will raise awareness of software-o-o.
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/b1c2qZs
Let me tell you the story behind the "effort".
A user wants to install a software which is not available in distribution. User is not aware of our lovely software.opensuse.org portal nor OBS.
The first natural reaction is to start asking on a local forum "How do I install x.y.z in openSUSE". This happened to me recently, package was in a devel project in OBS. I pointed user to the portal, done.
We don't really have any pointers to the service from within the distribution. I hope that this will "improve" the situation and will contribute to the better first-time user experience.
Really? The s.o.o is broken, it does not find software for Leap starting with 15.3 and when installing it adds non-existing repositories that cause errors every time a user is using zypper/YaST. This has been known for years and nothing was done to fix it. Not long ago there was intention to decommission s.o.o completely. I fail to see how endorsing s.o.o without fixing it is going to contribute to the better user experience.
We can work out better icon or title later. I'm super unhappy about the
Oh, sure. This is the only problem left.
length of the title restriction displayed in GNOME. The best "meaningful" text to be displayed was "Additional soft..." rest was shortened by GNOME.
ps. Scope of this change is to create a launcher and build awareness of the service for new users. If you have particular request/bug against sofware-o-o as a service, please open reuqest in https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o/issues
Cheers!
Best regards
Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager