2010/6/15 Esben Damgaard <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I would like some opinions on my idea, so I'm writing here. > > I miss an application that can show the available applications. So some > sort of frontend to opkg. It should only show actual applications and not > libraries, so to make this possible there needs to be a downloadable list > the program can get of which categories/apps there are. > This could be something like opkg.org, except there would only be programs > that are in the official repositories. But I like the concept that a lot of > people can maintain the list of apps to show. I don't think the site should > be used by end users though. If the site would be for end users, there would > be a lot more work to do (so I don't like that..). > > I could make both these things, but I'd appreciate some help with the > Freerunner application. But if I'm going to work on the application, it > should be made with Vala and elementary. > The web application I could easily make myself in PHP and MySQL. Nothing > fancy, just something that does the job. > > What do people think? >
I think it's a good idea :) I don't know if opkg can have apps split by categories but the idea of a simple (I suggest a basic xml) list of "apps" seems good to me ( I agree, dev managed list ). Since opkg seems very slow on queries ( dev: why? ) maybe could be a good idea to create a parallel db ( I suggest sqlite ). I'm thinking about the relation between portage and eix ( if someone use or had use gentoo ) On the frontend, I'd like a simple interface with category and an app detail with a short description ( and a screenshot maybe ). Even if it's not a crucial point in SHR development at the moment, I think it's a good point to focus giving another usability point to SHR. For working on the application, I don't know vala - I know C, C++,C# and a little of python - , but I promised myself to learn it and this could be a good pretext :) -- Marco aka Delian On IRC freenode: /marco
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