hi I have found this dormant but featured software center for arch linux named yo'imnotpro with package icon support and groups if there is someone want to fork it to parabola linux. I think is a well software center, currently it's only list package that match with it,s package database, so I suggest to add function to list all package available in repository. if there is something wrong with the file just tell me to resend it.

GNOME Software and Discover depend both in the nonfree archlinux-appstream-data, and AFAIK those are the only software centers we have (unless someone compiles anotherone or fixes both)

Megver83 wrote:

AFAIK those are the only software centers we have

what about good ol' packagekit?

note that this issue is 2 years old - i looked over this entire category a few months ago and ive used many of the feature requests here as the roadmap for the new ISOs such that most of the new more recent issues would be closed all at once as bug fixes and that most of these old issues would be simply closed all at once as fulfilled feature requests or otherwise irrelevant

this particular issue i assumed is irrelevant because the Mate desktop comes with the octopi program which is a graphical package browser - that is not quite the same as a one-click install "software center" such ubuntu has - in reality those are mainly modeled as "app stores" in which most programs happen to be gratis - i would not expect to find anything like that on an pacman-based system

making one would be mainly a design task - the implementation is clearly a thin wrapper around pacman that presents each program in a pretty form with logos and screen-shots - debian packages for example have a designated entry for a screen-shot as well as a short and long descriptions so tools such as this are easier to make for a deb-based distro - i dont think there is any such designator in a PKGBUILD so it would be an large amount of work simply to write all of the missing long descriptions and take screen-shots of every program and then design the GUI

just for "fun" i looked into the programs mentioned in the OP

'yoimnotpro' appears to be defunct - the original developer has even destroyed the original github repo - it has been adopted by devuan though so perhaps they plan to maintain it - it is GPLv3 and the README says it is (was) in the AUR - but i could not find a PKGBUILD - it appears to be very KISS though which probably makes it a better fit for parabola than 'apper' which requires the 'kdebase'

code and screen-shot here:
https://git.devuan.org/bert/yoimnotpro/tree/master

'apper' is GPLv2 using using 'packagekit' as it's backend and appears to be actively maintained by the KDE team - it has a *-git PKGBUILD in the AUR - it is much more full-featured than 'yoimnotpro' and would probably make the 'octopi' suite redundant - again though the 'octopi' programs are much more KISS

code here:
https://cgit.kde.org/apper.git/
screen-shot here:
https://userbase.kde.org/Apper

it appears that 'apper' is already in parabola

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/armv7h/apper/

bill-auger wrote:

the Mate desktop comes with the octopi program which is a graphical package browser - that is not quite the same as a one-click install "software center" such ubuntu has - in reality those are mainly modeled as "app stores" in which most programs happen to be gratis - i would not expect to find anything like that on an pacman-based system

GNOME Software and KDE Discover. Arch has them, look them up. there's a whole Freedesktop standard around them called Appstream - batteries and screenshots included. the home-brewed Ubuntu Software Center was recently retired in favor of GNOME Software. bugs #813 and #1413 contain more information about their status in Parabola. in some ways Appstream works like an extension to the older Freedesktop standard, "Packagekit", allowing for richer distro-agnostic "app stores" where packagekit is only a barebones distro-agnostic package manager.

i think the more conservative solutions are good enough (like octopi, or even packagekit-only stuff like apper); should any sort of graphical package manager be desired for the graphical ISO.

ok octopi is already installed on the ISO - has been for some time - that why i assumed this issue should have been closed years ago but maybe was just forgotten

i will point out that this issue was assigned to 'Jorginho' by user 'Anonymous' about 2 years ago and absolutely nothing was said or done about it until today - this does not look good to anyone judging parabola on professionalism

sorry long time not being here, im moving into college and had much and much less time in those past years but im still love parabola and using it on my primary laptop, thanks for all of your attention. if i have a time im planning to freeing archlinux-appstream-data and possibily adding indonesian translations in wiki

my point is - this bug can be closed now