Snapd doesn't provide metadata on snap apps
Bug #1664724 reported by
Robert Ancell
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1661590: GNOME Software only supports running one application from a snap.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-software (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
A snap can contain a number of "apps" which each represent an executable program.
Currently only the name (i.e. the binary name) of an app is exposed via the snapd interface, i.e.
"apps": [ { "name": "ohmygiraffe" } ]
For a graphical snapd client (e.g. gnome-software) it is useful to have more information about this app, especially if more than one app is provided. For graphical apps [1] they are likely to provide a .desktop file, so having a means to get the contents of this file via snapd would be useful.
[1] https:/
Revision history for this message
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #1 |
| no longer affects: | snapd-glib (Ubuntu) |
| no longer affects: | snapd (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
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| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #2 |
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