Hey.
In my opinion there’s a bit of a UX problem when using gnome-software on Fedora 41.
I’m sure the problem could be something along the lines of the distro’s integration with appstream or the appstream itself.
The gnome app when I download or update anything, stops giving me any app details, no apps can be searched for.
Which grants to a halt the experience of queueing up 10-20 apps all at once when you freshly install the computer.
Sure I can use dnf directly and/or flatpak via flathub+cmdline.
I’ll check if the issues repeats on apt(dpkg), pacman(tarballish), zypper(rpm) based systems.
This is a known issue, mainly due to limitations on 'PackageKit' side.
Refer this diagram to understand gnome-software relation with 'PackageKit'.
Relevant 'PackageKit' bugs:
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The issue persists on Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 41, openSUSE Leap 15.6.
Thanks for working on this, I was sure someone reported this long time ago, but still.
I guess there’s a proper investigation into how to make it asynchronously execute/queue those commands, thanks.
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As explained in this comment, PackageKit backends (dnf, apt, alpm, zypp, freebsd etc) need to support parallelization as a first step, which as I understand is at different stages of development for different backends.
Even when backends support parallelization, there is currently shortage of developer resources for PackageKit. Hopefully, some of these issues get addressed in the coming months.
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