Description of problem: When using the Fedora installer, everything works great, so the user has nothing to worry about and starts looking at the banners which advertise rhytmbox, open office, etc, which are displayed during installation. But there's just a few of them, so they get boring after a while. It would be really cool if we could showcase useful programs in this space. A screenshot + summary could be used to generate banners automatically for the highest rated packages. This would be pleasant on the eyes and one might learn something useful instead of looking dumbly at the screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F21 installer.
A nice idea, but I think we want to look at the composited "AppStream" data rather than the source AppData files.
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I'm not sure what you want out of anaconda for this. Anaconda will happily display whatever images you place in /usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/rnotes, but generating these images, and especially determining which packages are important enough to have images generated, is outside the scope of the installer.
Hi David, I think the logic was that anaconda would generate the banners itself using the icons and summary text from the AppStream metadata. I don't think gnome-software is the component to do this, but I'm unable to come up with a decent product that could do this. Maybe the release notes package?