Categories not returned in /v2/find results

[Robert Ancell]

snapcraft.io shows the categories each app is in, e.g. https://snapcraft.io/skype shows the Skype snap in the "Productivity" and "Social" categories.

This information is not returned from /v2/find, so other clients can't show this.

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

The categories do not align with gnome's categories. What's the plan for that? Is exposing these different categories _useful_ for GUI stores?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

For GNOME software we map the Snap categories to the XDG ones. In Snap Store (https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) we use the Snap categories.

In both cases currently you can browse from a category to an app, but not the reverse. With this change we should be able to go both directions in GNOME Software and Snap Store.

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

John are you still actively working on this issue?

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

work on this bug is currently paused while higher priority items are worked on

[Frederik Feichtmeier (feichtmeier)]

Hi! :)

We would really need this "section/category" property for the new flutter based snap-store desktop client/front-end.

This is the requested design change by the other designers, which includes the category/section property in the app page.

Would be awesome if you could get this in:

https://github.com/ubuntu-flutter-community/software/issues/796

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/12513