Query about discover

[jony127]

Hi.

I do not like to discover, sometimes I do not find applications that are in the repos so I would like to uninstall it. If I uninstall it, how do I get the update applet to continue notifying me?

Thank you.

[GreyGeek]

What are you going to use instead? I switched to Muon. I have muon, muon-notifier and muon-updater installed. For grins and giggles I also have Synaptic installed. Choices. Love'm!

[jony127]

If I try to install muon it marks me as dependencies muon-updater, plasma-discover and plasma-discover-common.

[Snowhog]

That's correct.

[dequire]

In my opinion Discover looks great but still has a ways to go to get all the way there. Users need to understand that Discover is like a software store. It is not a 'package manager'. nor is it intended to be one. They are separate things. Having said that, the fact that Discover doesn't see all applications available (at least in an Ubuntu-based system - not sure how that works on rpm-based and other distributions) makes it less than ideal.

What I have been long waiting for is for Discover to both
a) See all available applications within the distribution's application ecosystem, and
b) Integration with store.kde.org

Once those two things happen, if they ever do, Discover will finally reach it's true, glorious potential. And still will not replace the need for a package manager, i.e. Muon.

Peace.

[GreyGeek]

In my opinion Discover looks great but still has a ways to go to get all the way there. Users need to understand that Discover is like a software store. It is not a 'package manager'. nor is it intended to be one. They are separate things. Having said that, the fact that Discover doesn't see all applications available (at least in an Ubuntu-based system - not sure how that works on rpm-based and other distributions) makes it less than ideal.

What I have been long waiting for is for Discover to both
a) See all available applications within the distribution's application ecosystem, and
b) Integration with store.kde.org

Once those two things happen, if they ever do, Discover will finally reach it's true, glorious potential. And still will not replace the need for a package manager, i.e. Muon.

Peace.

While Discovery "looks" great, it doesn't work that great. The image loading is enough to make it obnoxious to use, EVEN IF it could show all the packages in the repository. MOST of the repository packages do not have GUI front ends or are not GUI applications at all: libraries, etc. That's why I prefer the display format in Synaptic or Muon.

[jony127]

So to use muon you have to maintain also discover?

[GreyGeek]

So to use muon you have to maintain also discover?

I didn't remove Discover and so it gets updated when ever the developers send an update down the pipe. I never use it, though.
Here is why I won't remove it:

[B]apt-cache depends discover[/B]
discover
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libdiscover2
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Conflicts: <discover1>
  Suggests: lsb-base

[B]apt-cache rdepends discover[/B]
discover
Reverse Depends:
  libdiscover2
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |plasma-desktop
 |bootcd