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=== Software === Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions. Design: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Software https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/SoftwareUpdates For GNOME 3.10: * Aim for feature parity with gnome-packagekit * Focus on update experience * Always update offline (including security updates) * Never wait on downloads in the application * Search for available applications * May not have screenshots, ratings and other metadata for the installation part * The only metadata we absolutely want to have is icons gnome-software is split into a service, gnome-software-service, and a launcher, gnome-software. Normally, the service is autostarted at login to monitor available updates, and the laucher will simply call into the service and cause it to open a window. During development, you can kill the currently running instance of the service, and lauch your version manually: killall gnome-software-service ./src/gnome-software-service To open a window, you can run the launcher in another terminal, e.g.: gnome-software --search fox