I have two questions...
1) Why is GNOME Software on Fedora trying to reach some .moe site
2) Why does that site being down mean that Software doesn't work
#GnomeSoftware
![Screenshot of GNOME Software, showing an infinite "Loading Updates" screen and an error: "While fetching https://gol.launcher.moe/repo/summary.idx: [28] Timeout was reached"](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/042/863/149/988/706/original/bb27965d0e5e8b8c.png)
This time the upgrade was successful. Note to me: don’t trust GNOME software to do the upgrade correctly.
Pro Tip™ from @pwithnall for #FreeDesktop app developers: if you want your application to be easily found in the GNOME Software app center store, you need to add "keyword" metadata fields to complement your app's name and tagline. The "description" metadata field is not used for searching!
Some examples:
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/665
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/merge_requests/205
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/2132224
* https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issues/355
So, what's going on when Gnome Software says there's 2 runtime-thingies available for update, while Bazaar says there's 5? And when I do the 2 in Software, Bazaar says there's now suddenly just 1?
"This is not happening, please stop demanding my time to re-explain decisions which have already been made."
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2909#note_2589143
Where is that explained?
Not here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1817#note_1494467
For my understanding that is not a real explanation.
Hey, seems to me like someone has done some great work on Gnome Software lately!
On my 49.beta-42 now, I'm actually able to launch a newly installed app before the screen reloads! And it reloads much faster than before!
No idea why it still reloads at all, though, but hey, I appreciate the improvement! Thanks, hackers!
I was hoping to see that sort of functionality directly in #GNOMESoftware when applying system updates that don't touch the kernel, but it seems some piece of the puzzle is missing here (maybe a hybrid of #systemd's "soft-reboot" and #DNF's "system-upgrade"): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2427
@razze If you have #gnomeos, can you please try adding the #flathub repo with the #floss subset using a #flatpakrepo file?
On fedora 42 with #gnomesoftware 48.3, it adds the entire unfiltered repo, while adding it on the command line works.
The point is to create an easy way for nontechies to add flathub-floss by just opening a flatpakrepo file in gnome software, without using the terminal.
Very excited by the upcoming #GNOMESoftware release, as it solves the high RAM usage issue that occurred while in the background (it will now shrink back to ~100 MB instead of growing to multiple hundreds of MBs of RAM due to memory heap fragmentation): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/941#note_2417546
Coming to you in #GNOME 48.2 near the end of May! 😎
Thanks to Owen Chiaventone (a total newcomer to @gnome !) for profiling and providing a patch to solve the issue, & @pabloyoyoista + @pwithnall for reviewing & merging!
@alextecplayz @cassidy
- In my usage #DejaVuBackup & #PikaBackups both work very well. #Celeste too for syncing files with #Nextcloud
- Everything #AppManager does is possible w/ #Flatseal, #GnomeSoftware, & opening #flatpak manifests or specific to #Android activities, which are loosely analogous to #DBus services, which #DSpy works well for.
- Never used #Gemini, but #Alpaca works super well with communicating w/ #LLMs via #Ollama. Would make for an awesome #GNOME #SearchProvider
Finally, an explanation for #GNOMESoftware's slow scrolling when browsing apps! Thanks to @kdwk for finding out that it only happens when the mouse is over the items instead of "in the margin on the side"…
The fact that it is hundreds of times slower, however, was a rather unexpected finding :blobsweats:
I added some #Sysprof performance profiles to this ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2172
I wonder whether it's #GTK, the pixbufs, or something else in the #GNOME graphics stack 🤔
There's been recently some confusion in #postmarketOS as GNOME Software is still on version 45. The main reason is that the simple plugin: https://github.com/Cogitri/gnome-software-plugin-apk we use for APK has not been updated to follow GNOME Software's library changes. If anybody is interested in helping with maintenance for that project, I can provide guidance and reviews, and we will all be very pleased!
@thomholwerda @tbernard @matt @allanday
For what it's worth, I have now filed a feature suggestion in the "Warehouse" #flatpak management app regarding the ability to manage extra languages for spellchecking & dictionaries, for those who use Warehouse as their primary tool: https://github.com/flattool/warehouse/issues/120
I still think it would make sense to also have this in #GNOMESoftware and #KDEDiscover for the majority of people who use those.
On top of the performance optimizations that Milan has done in #GNOMESoftware some months ago, I'm proposing my one-liner search performance trick for the #GNOME software center app store thingy that people love to hate on #Linux, to reduce the jankiness and improve performance further for most practical purposes.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/2032
Im just trying out @gnome 46 on #Fedora #Silverblue #Rawhide and I really like how the performance improved for #GnomeSoftware. The speed improvement for loading categories is massive.
Thanks for the work, #GNOME devs!
First time I tried updating my #Debian system via #GnomeSoftware and oh wow, I really need to set up #Plymouth so the progress report will look halfway decent
Shout out to @matk who just keeps on solidly working through big features on https://github.com/ximion/appstream/ ready for the 1.0 release! 🥳
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