On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 18:53, Sune Vuorela a écrit: > > On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kosse...@kde.org> wrote: > > > Uh, that is old-fashioned. Should instead ask the user whether she > > > wants to install the proper text editor module. Isn't there some simple > > > standard api for that these days? > > > > A simple standard api for what? installations of scripts and wallpapers > > and stuff, sure. there is the ghns things. > > > > For isntallation of compiled stuff, no. > > Not something related to packagekit or similar? Eh, IMHO there should be > something like that if there isn't. With OBS and Co. compiled stuff is not > that much different, you just get a variant tailored to your (hardware) > profil. Can someone please empty my TODO list? :) > > > And I'm not sure there should be > > such a thing. > > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like > "Sorry, missing X to do Y. Would you like to get X now for that?" > is better than one à la > "Na, no way to do Y."?
I think Lubos proposed something like this "recently", i.e. at some point last year here on this list. Alex
