Bug 458464

Summary:	"Share app URL" button
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	David <kitt997>
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.25.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/e9752d5fe6f314265585114c6f25ae09c856508d	Version Fixed In:	5.26
Sentry Crash Report:

Description David 2022-08-29 09:39:36 UTC

SUMMARY
It would be nice to have a share button, so that at least among KDE users we could share store apps links and have an improved experience. Just like in the case of Google play store, to say one.
I understand there might be issues when sharing apps from different distros, but who cares, it would suffice to have the option to do so among same distro users at least. In a second stage it might even be possible to match packages from different distributions by some criteria (name+maintainer?), and hence make the share button really shine :)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 35
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.19.4-100.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 5570

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-08-30 20:54:15 UTC

So you want an option to share the appstream:// link to the app, so that you can give it to someone else and they can click on it and it will open in Discover?

Comment 2 David 2022-08-30 21:47:52 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> So you want an option to share the appstream:// link to the app, so that you
> can give it to someone else and they can click on it and it will open in
> Discover?

Exactly what I was on about.
I can clearly envision this to be useful in a range of situations, from posting those links on websites/socials, to sending them to friends and so on...
What do you think?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-08-30 21:53:14 UTC

Sure, seems like a fine idea.

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2022-08-31 17:30:55 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/366

Comment 5 Aleix Pol 2022-09-01 11:13:08 UTC

Git commit e9752d5fe6f314265585114c6f25ae09c856508d by Aleix Pol Gonzalez.
Committed on 01/09/2022 at 11:13.
Pushed by apol into branch 'master'.

Allow sharing the app URL

M  +1    -0    .kde-ci.yml
M  +1    -1    CMakeLists.txt
M  +45   -2    discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/e9752d5fe6f314265585114c6f25ae09c856508d

Comment 6 David 2022-09-01 16:07:46 UTC

Thank you all!