---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Oliver <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [Keryx] App install data support To: mac9416 <[email protected]>
We just download the app-install-data package when the user wants to use it. We can keep the files cached so that they don't have to download it every time. Either way, I think this would be a post 1.0 feature. I am going to try to make the package view look a lot more like the list of software in Software Center though if we can. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, mac9416 <[email protected]> wrote: > OK. So will this be bundled with Keryx? And how do we keep it up-to-date? > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > App-install-data is just a deb full of desktop files and icons. We just > > parse those to display their packages and that's it. > > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, mac9416 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > ...There will be a large > >> > amount of icons and desktop files that will be downloaded and that > would > >> > cause Keryx to take up more disk space.... > >> > >> Are you talking about installing app-install-data or updating it? I'm > >> having trouble understanding that part. > >> > >> There's also a question of whether it can be made cross-platform. How > >> would app-install-data be accessed and updated from Windows? > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chris Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > This is something we may or may not decide to include in Keryx 1.0. I > >> > would > >> > like to guage our interest in developing this feature on top of the > >> > regular > >> > interface. This would essentially give us a similar interface to > >> > Add/Remove, > >> > however it is somewhat unnecessary at the same time. There will be a > >> > large > >> > amount of icons and desktop files that will be downloaded and that > would > >> > cause Keryx to take up more disk space. What other pros and cons do > you > >> > forsee for this feature and is it important enough that we need it for > >> > the > >> > first release or can we add it as a feature afterwards? > >> > -- > >> > Chris Oliver > >> > http://excid3.com > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> > Post to : [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > Chris Oliver > > http://excid3.com > > > > > -- Chris Oliver http://excid3.com -- Chris Oliver http://excid3.com
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