On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 15:28 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi! > > > Also, there should be a clear distinction whether an addon is Gnome > > approved (meaning it is reviewed, translated, probably hosted in the > > gnome git somewhere) or the work of a freelance dev. Distributions are > > welcome to keep packaging any of the addons, as they do now, but > > normally the maintainer's cost of distributing 100 or more addons > > would be too high (in my opinion). In this sense, I would love to have > > an easy way of installing add-ons that does not require you to copy > > files to some hidden directories. We should have a command line > > gnome-addon install add-on-name, which will download and install the > > add-on. That would be really neat in my opinion. > > While I would rather vote for a more complete "GNOME Appstore" solution > in the far future (possibly based on OpenSuSE build service), some > points to note:
I think the addons.gnome.org could be a first step for this. Another step on this direction could be to revamping the GNOME Software Map (there is a recent theat suggesting this on the marketing-list) and gnome tv. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-August/msg00007.html > * This will only work for scripted plugins Python, Javascript, Ruby > * All compiled languages will suffer depedency problems > * It would mean that we install executable things into the user's home > directory. Some admins might not like this though of course mozilla does > the same. Security is an important point here. > > It is also a rather huge maintaince burden to check that the plugin > works with the installed version of an application. Yes, there are some technical open issues and resources problems to solve. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list