GNOME Software doesnt seem to support appstream:// URLs

Bug #1799474 reported by Will Cooke
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

I'd like to be able to link directly to GNOME Shell extensions from, for example, a web page.

On Bionic running:

xdg-open appstream://ShellUtilites_obsidian.github.com

Does open GNOME Software as expected, but GNOME Software gives an error "Failed to install: not supported"

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
summary: - xdgopen doesnt seem to support appsteam:// URLs
+ xdgopen doesnt seem to support appstream:// URLs
Will Cooke (willcooke)
summary: - xdgopen doesnt seem to support appstream:// URLs
+ GNOME Software doesnt seem to support appstream:// URLs
description: updated
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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