Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: >>> My thought was that one could have a list of /Programs apps and how to >>> make AppDirs of them, they could be automatically symlinked to /ROX-Apps >>> too... Perhaps one could use that inotify shellscript tool some dev on >>> this list created (lucas? don't remember...) to do this automatically >>> when installing a program in /Programs. >>> >>> One problem is that some apps don't install any icon by default, some >>> has icons in their source-tarball and some doesn't have any icons at >>> all. One could provide URL's to icons for those... >>> >> Something like that would be very nice, yes. How about we create a >> repository of Launcher AppDirs? We could patch or wrap InstallPackage >> and Compile, so that when installing programs, if a launcher of the same >> name is available, it will be downloaded and unzipped to /Apps. >> >> We could also have launchers that will run a local copy of the program >> if available, and otherwise get it through ZeroInstall. >> >> Also, if a program isn't installed and isn't available through >> ZeroInstall, the launcher could pop up a dialogue asking whether you'd >> like to install it through a package or recipe. If so, it prompts for a >> password and runs the InstallPackage or Compile command in an xterm. I >> imagine this should be pretty easy to make in PyGTK. > > I think it's better to use the actual /Programs folders for AppDir's > since a launcher separates the launcher and the actual program... While I like doing that on my own system, I wouldn't want to build a distribution that does it. It creates inconsistensies. ROX AppDirs can be moved around and run from anywhere without trouble. If a user were to try to move AppDirs in /Programs around, the results might make him (or her) quite unhappy, though.
> So, Compile and InstallPackage would be patched to call GoboRoxify or > something like that, which checks "how to do appdir of program X" and > does this and symlinks it to /ROX-Apps. > > And regarding package management, if you need the launcher installed to > get the dialogue of auto-installation, then you could as well had > installed the real program to start with? (With Compile or > InstallPackage, or downloaded a real AppDir from the web and unpacked it > to /ROX-Apps, or with ZeroInstall which would work as a separate thing, > no need to integrate it I think) I will once again hammer on consistency. If any program can be run/installed through a launcher, this creates a single starting point for installing software. The launchers could be provided through a nice website, with categories, icons and descriptions. As a new user, I'd find it quite confusing that some software needs to be installed through a shell command (or Manager), while other software can simply be unpacked anywhere. More experienced users could still install the software through Manager/InstallPackage/Compile, which would also add a launcher to /Apps. Cheers, Koen _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
