Bug 377646

Summary:	rfe: support PackageKit session interface
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	admin, dantti12, katyaberezyaka
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Rex Dieter 2017-03-15 14:35:25 UTC

See also:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/pk-faq.html#session-methods

gnome-software and apper (unmaintained) has support for this, would be nice if discover (maintained) could grow support as well.

Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2017-03-17 17:22:52 UTC

Makes sense, maybe it would be best if we split PkSession out of apper and maintain it rather than introducing this in Discover UI.
What do you think? I don't have experience with that interface and I'm not sure where it's used.

It looks dated either way, as it doesn't support AppStream anyway...

Comment 2 Daniel Nicoletti 2017-03-17 18:16:31 UTC

Since Apper is sort of ported to kf5 (never tested it myself), an option could be to put a build flag to only build the session interface.
Sadly I can't deal with this ATM (I may try compiling it to check the state).

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-03-20 12:33:08 UTC

Daniel,

see also bug #375347 for a current fatal error trying to use apper-pk-session

Comment 4 Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen 2017-03-27 12:26:35 UTC

Just created a review request at https://phabricator.kde.org/D5194 which implements the ability to optionally disable parts of Apper's selection of tools, as Daniel suggests in comment 2.