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[Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Keryx] App install data support
To: mac9416 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
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> >> > http://excid3.com
> >> >
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Chris Oliver
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-- 
Chris Oliver
http://excid3.com