Bug 476815

Summary: Discover cannot find sddm package
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Piotr Mierzwinski <piotr.mierzwinski>
Component: discoverAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol, nate, piotr.mierzwinski
Priority: NOR Keywords: qt6
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Piotr Mierzwinski 2023-11-11 01:50:16 UTC 
SUMMARY
In one of last "This week in KDE" I have read that Discover can find all, so I decided to test. Unfortunately it is not able to find in my system sddm package, whereas apt is able.

$ apt list sddm
Listing... Done
sddm/jammy,now 0.20.0+p22.04+vunstable+git20231026.1300-0 amd64 [installed,automatic]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start Discover 
2. Enter sddm in search field
3. press Enter

OBSERVED RESULT
Never ending animation "Still looking..."

EXPECTED RESULT
Should be found mentioned package

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.81.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.245
Qt Version: 6.6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-11-11 04:03:05 UTC 
Right, Discover is an "app store" and not a package manager. It's not meant to find technical packages like SDDM that your distro should have already pre-installed for you.
Comment 2 Piotr Mierzwinski 2023-11-16 01:59:53 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Right, Discover is an "app store" and not a package manager. It's not meant
> to find technical packages like SDDM that your distro should have already
> pre-installed for you.

Seems below message published at Nov 3rd, 2023 in "This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches"  was misleading. I cannot find what I "expecting when you search for something that exists and is available".
"Discover’s search has been hugely improved, and now generally always returns the results you’re expecting when you search for something that exists and is available"
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-11-16 20:19:49 UTC 
That piece of text was meant to be read as "the search now does a better job of finding the things that it's meant to find" and not "the search now finds new things that it was not previously meant to find."