Gnome Software catalog entry missing for GNU Screen

[AsciiWolf]

The GNU Screen package cannot be installed using the Gnome Software application because it's missing the needed metadata.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

What kind of meta data do you mean? I thought GNOME's "Software" uses packagekit as backend which again uses apt as backend and hence should be able to see _all_ packages.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

It doesn't show up in Gnome Software until the AppStream metadata (see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2016-February/004785.html) are added.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Thanks for the link. According to https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines this seems only for GUI applications.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

I see. Sorry, didn't know that. There are some console/tui apps (for example htop) available from the Gnome Software though.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Hi,

AsciiWolf wrote:
> I see. Sorry, didn't know that. There are some console/tui apps (for
> example htop) available from the Gnome Software though.

I'm not 100% sure though if it's only intended for GUI applications.
So _not_ marking as "invalid". :)

  Regards, Axel
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[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

The reason why are some TUI applications showing in the Gnome Software is because they have a XDG desktop/icon files.