Custom Categories Plugin

This plugin for GNOME Software creates adds programs with custom categories to the store.

Installation

Clone repo

git clone git@github.com:doccaz/gsplugin-customcategories/gsplugin-customcategories.git
cd gsplugin-customcategories

Configuration

Constructing configuration and Makefiles

autoreconf -vfi
./configure

Compiling/ Linking

Compile and install the library to GNOME Software's default plugin directory (/usr/lib64/gs-plugins-11)

sudo make install

Using the plugin

Just start gnome-software. You can check if it was loaded correctly by examining the output of gnome-software -v.

What this basically does, is to filter applications with custom categories (like "X-YaST", for example) to show up in specific categories on GNOME Software (which also are not standard). For now, everything's hardcoded in a structure located at the beginning of src/gsplugin-customcategories.c).

Removing Clutter

You have to become root to cleanup, because sudo make install generates src/.libs/*.

sudo sh cleanup.sh

Uninstalling the plugin

sudo make uninstall