Bug 404732 - Display list of files for installed package
Summary: Display list of files for installed package
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Installed page (show other bugs)
Version: 5.14.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
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Reported: 2019-02-23 11:05 UTC by Alexander Potashev
Modified: 2025-04-24 21:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2019-02-23 11:05 UTC, Alexander Potashev
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Description Alexander Potashev 2019-02-23 11:05:03 UTC
Created attachment 118316 [details]
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Please add list of files for installed package into the package page. By "package page" I mean the screen seen on the attached screenshot.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Операционная система: Fedora 29
Версия KDE Plasma: 5.14.4
Версия Qt: 5.11.3
Версия KDE Frameworks: 5.54.0
Версия ядра: 4.20.4-200.fc29.x86_64
Архитектура: 64-битная
Процессоры: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Память: 15,4 ГиБ ОЗУ
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2019-03-07 01:11:53 UTC
What's the usecase?
Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2019-03-10 21:11:28 UTC
(In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #1)
> What's the usecase?

Well, to check where opencv headers are installed on my computer.

Now I understand that Discover is not an experts application, thus this must be out of its scope. May be better to add a button "Show in KPackageKit" (or in whatever package manager is installed).
Comment 3 silopolis 2022-07-09 17:57:52 UTC
(In reply to Aleix Pol from comment #1)
> What's the usecase?

I always thought so, and with such a name, I believe Discover should give access to all informations about a package, and files list is quite a basic one. There are many situations in the life of a Linux user where she'll have to look for this, and the natural place to go find it must be software manager.

Going further, I believe offering access to man pages and links to documentation would be an big plus.

All these could be added to tabs to not clutter the main "page"
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-04-04 16:48:28 UTC
> There are many situations in the life of a Linux user where she'll have to look for this
What are some of them?

If you're a packager or a software dev, maybe, but in those cases wouldn't a command-line program be a vastly faster and more efficient tool to use?
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2025-04-19 03:47:09 UTC
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Comment 6 Alexander Potashev 2025-04-24 21:14:39 UTC
> If you're a packager or a software dev, maybe, but in those cases wouldn't a command-line program be a vastly faster and more efficient tool to use?

Checking where opencv headers are installed is indeed a software dev use case. However, being a software developer doesn't imply I'm familiar with CLI package management tools of a given Linux distro. For example, I had been exposed to Debian/Ubuntu environments at my job(s) over the past ~10 years, yet I don't fully understand how dpkg/apt work and can't remember relevant CLI commands, possibly because I'm more used to other distros.