On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 17:55 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0200, piegames wrote: > > So the main motivation for this is to *hide elements* from the > > menu? As > > in, if I unplug the keyboard I cannot find some apps in the > > launcher > > any more? That sounds arbitrary and frustrating IMO. But I don't > > really > > understand the point of this feature. What will it bring to the > > users? > > Not necessarily hiding permanently but rather sorting or showing with > proper priority (e.g. on search). > > E.g There's no point in having kicad, gimp, libreoffice, inkscape, > freecad, gnumeric, ... in a prominent place on a phone when no large > screen is attached. It's busywork for the user to have them sort that > out > by arranging apps manually when the shell can sort applications > properly > into a 'fits the current device mode' and 'all apps' tabs.
I don't see how this would be implemented. Right now, it's unclear what makes a phone, which peripherals need to be plugged in and enabled to make it not a phone anymore. Is a tablet with a keyboard a laptop? Is a large phone with a keyboard a laptop? Is a small tablet with a mouse a laptop? I think that if the user installs KiCad, LibreOffice, or VSCode on a phone, they'll likely put it somewhere in the launchers where it doesn't get in the way of their normal usage. There's already a "control" section in appstream: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-requires-recommends-control Maybe that's the data you're looking for? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
