On 3 November 2013 13:30, Sven Brauch <svenbra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Assuming KDE did that, then we would end up with a situation where you can't > easily install Krita in distributions that ship GNOME, and you can't easily > install Inkscape in distributions that ship KDE.
I don't think that's true at all. Krita and Inkscape are two of the killer apps I'd love to feature more prominently in GNOME Software. > Quality control should happen at the packager level. I don't agree. Packages are just an implementation detail, as gnome-software supports webapps and will soon support other staticly linked packages like listaller and glick2. > distributions should make the choice which application is good enough for > their users, not a desktop environment. I know for a fact that a lot of the GNOME developers use and love a lot of KDE software, so I don't know why there is any kind of issue here. > Of course this is your decision though. > Or it does not become mainstream; then you will end up excluding a lot of > high-quality applications for no reason (think e.g. Blender). Blender already has an AppData file in fedora-appstream, which has also been submitted upstream for the next release. Richard
