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Improve error message when app is unavailable for current architecture #1753

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@JustAdreamerFL

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hi, thank you for the project!

my issue is with ux.

i tried to find polymc on my arm device, not realizing at the time that it's only built for x86. i knew it was published on flathub, so i went there and found it. i clicked install and it opened bazaar, but it showed an error message toast saying "could not find app". i clicked on the "show more" and it said "could not find app. details: id 'org.polymc.polymc' was not found".

then i downloaded the .flatpakref and opened it in warehouse. it gave a more detailed error message in the toast saying "errors occurred during installation" with details "error: no such ref 'app/org.polymc.polymc/aarch64/stable' in remote flathub".

my point is, bazaar could tell the user that the app is in the store but for a different architecture. and if the user opens a .flatpakref in bazaar, it could say that the app is found but not for the architecture of this device.

what is your opinion? thanks for reading.

OS

asahi linux 44, gnome 50

Version

0.9.0 (vcs=fd987939)

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fedora system,oci
flathub system
gnome-nightly system
flathub user

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m1 macbook

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