Applications Place Software Center integration is not implemented

Apps are listed and even installable via URI activation. The code to actually trigger this from Unity has not landed in trunk yet (but is in lp:~unity-team/unity/file-browsing)

Keeping this bug open to account for the extra API to support the SC sending a request to highlight an application in the apps. view / panel once it has been installed.

Mikkel, why did you change my original title and description? In doing so, you completely changed the issue at hand and introduced a new user experience that is not present in the current design. If you feel that changes should be made to the user experience, please file a separate bug and assign it to me so I can discuss it with you, document it, and get you enough design information to implement it to a high design standard.

David, I just felt that the title was too "meta" to be useful and that it somehow indicated that it was a duplicate of bug #610382 or that we didn't integrate with S-C at all. I changed it in order to reflect the remaining work item(s) on this bug (see dbarth in comment #2).

Regarding the user experience I listed it was merely an upshot of what mpt had talked to us about (which is afaik not documented anywhere). Or maybe we have dropped this feature - in which case I think we can close this bug?

The current status is that we 1) Show stuff from S-C and 2) Trigger S-C showing the app in question if you click something from the Available group. This clearly covers the description of this bug I think.

What is missing to complete the integration is (which may or may not belong under this bug):

 a) Visual specs and impl of how apps from S-C should be rendered in Unity
 b) Visual specs and impl of how exactly we should draw attention to newly installed apps

Depending on a lot of stuff we may not have time to finish b) for Maverick though.

The title could be less ambiguous, but the description is precise enough -- at the time I reported the bug, searching in the applications place didn't return results from the Software Center. This is not a general bug aimed at all planned at future Software Center integration.

There is a separate bug reported for (a) and (b) is not scoped for Maverick.

Another item I see missing here is whether we should support app installation by dragging an Available app to the launcher. I could not find it in the spec, but have heard it mentioned quite a lot here and there...

If we want a separate bug for that, or if we want to punt it, then we should close this bug I think. What are you thoughts on this David?

Yes, please file a separate bug for that. It is deliberately absent from the
10.10 spec.

Filed bug #616866 to track related tasks

This bug was fixed in the package unity-place-applications - 0.2.10-0ubuntu1

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unity-place-applications (0.2.10-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Update the applications model when changes are detected (LP: #610382)
    - Available group shouldn't be shown when there is no search (LP: #615407)
    - Implement Applications Place Software Center integration (LP: #608179)
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest unity, dee, libzg
    - depends on new zeitgeist-fts-extension
    - bump Standards-Version to latest
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:26:04 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.26-0ubuntu1

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unity (0.2.26-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix mutter grabbing the [Super] key and breaks the shorcuts
      overlay (LP: #612992)
    - Fix flattened icons move when expansion is triggered by a mouse over a
      flattened launcher item (LP: #600977)
    - Holding down super should reveal a list of keyboard shortcuts
      (LP: #610366)
    - Update the applications model when changes are detected (LP: #610382)
    - Implement Applications Place Software Center integration (LP: #608179)
    - Files Place home screen should have a Recent group (LP: #607815)
  * debian/patches/01_show_gicons.patch:
    - adapt with latest libindicator change
  * update debian/libunity0.symbols
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:13:24 +0200