On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:42, Alexander Neundorf a écrit: > > 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. > > Others have done now and then as well, e.g., ahem, me ;) here a few years > ago: http://markmail.org/message/xo2b4zw2ee6si6g2 > > Oh, how cheap talk is :P
I think this might be related: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4232 Alex
