Some time ago, a lot of work was put into making both Chrome and Steam available for Fedora, through the 3rd party repos policy. The availability and ease of installation of these apps is a massive selling point for us, yet both are essentially hidden in the workstation user experience.
An example: I have the Steam repo installed, and I open Software. Steam doesn't appear in the banners at the top, nor does it appear in the row of "recommended games" on the home page, nor is it in the recommended games at the top of the games section, nor does it appear anywhere in the grid of games below. The only way I can find it is to manually search for it myself.
Making important apps easy to install and yet hiding their existence seems backwards. We should follow through, from making these apps available to integrating them into the user experience that we present to users.
Looks like this is addressed in the new mockup in https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/203#comment-714868, correct?
Yes it's probably the flip side of the same issue.
The Steam is part of the featured apps https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/blob/master/data/assets/org.gnome.Software.Featured.xml , but Chrome is not. If you want to add the chrome there, then file an upstream bug; if you want to do it downstream, then file a downstream bug.
From the mockup mentioned above, it's unclear to me where the "Available for Fedora" section is populated from.
With the new design, I think we can say that this ticket is a duplicate of #203.
Metadata Update from @aday: - Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
I checked the appdata status for the four repositories fedora-workstation-repositories:
_copr_phracek-PyCharm.repo: missing google-chrome.repo: part of the appstream-data package rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver.repo: repodata contains appstream.xml rpmfusion-nonfree-steam.repo: repodata contains appstream.xml
So only PyCharm is a problem with that https://github.com/flathub/com.jetbrains.PyCharm-Community/blob/master/com.jetbrains.PyCharm-Community.appdata.xml could potentially be adapted and added to the appstream-data package -
(it has <metadata_license>CC-BY-SA</metadata_license>, but appstream-data has License: CC0 and CC-BY and CC-BY-SA and GFDL, so we wouldn't need to change that.)
<metadata_license>CC-BY-SA</metadata_license>
License: CC0 and CC-BY and CC-BY-SA and GFDL
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