Kevin Ottens

Sounds like a duplicate, we got a report of the folder removal sometime failing on the desktop repository.

> * **For the Ubuntu PPA:** Can we just install the `nextcloud-client-nautilus` package? @er-vin noted that there’s of course Kubuntu and other distributions which can use the PPA but might...

Oh I forgot something: I don't know what's the apt abilities around "suggests" are nowadays, but if they're too limited for apt to automatically pickup the right file manager integration...

Yeah might turn out to be just a documentation issue... I guess the situation is similar for dolphin? (I mean those are the two filemanagers we support on Linux and...

> Is it somehow possible that it Just Works™ and gets installed with the nextcloud-desktop package? As you know, most people don’t read, and not only developers use Linux distributions...

> @jancborchardt the problem is not whether it can be detected in general which file manager is installed, but how this could be told to apt (and related tools) to...

> Something that could be done is detecting the default (all installed?) file managers, map that to an appstream id of the extension package with a curated list and propt...

> I didn't know `compulsory_for_desktop` before but looking at it I don't think it does help us with what we want. > IIUC it models dependencies like "KWin is required...

Alright, isn't what I'm describing the Enhances relationship for debian packages? https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends We seem to use it but declare it only for the filemanager not for nextcloud-desktop, could it be...

Yes, not that simple indeed, you'd be just kicking the problem one more level down in the dependency chain and it'll become even more obscure to the user IMO. That...