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[Geoffrey De Belie <computergeoffrey@xxxxxxxx>]

---- Aan ma, 13 okt 2014 17:17:34 +0200 Israel<israel@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef ---- 

 > I just remembered... 
 > https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/ 
 >  
 > We could use this, right? 
 > Just have a desktop file with 
 >  
 > Exec=xdg-open https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/ 
 >  
 > And voila...  we do need an apt:// handler of course so we need 
 > something like gdebi installed. 
 > But, this would ensure that the user is online (i.e. can install apps) 
 > and we don't have to do anything at all to make one. 
 > Though... it wont take care of 'uninstalling' programs. 
 > Maybe we can have an intermediary page that has something like: 
 > Install new apps 
 > Uninstall apps 
 > Help 
 > Uninstall apps, could be a simple zenity dialog that gets the list of 
 > packages installed with checkboxes. 
 > the user checks a box, and a confirm dialog pops-up 
 > then if the user answers OK 
 > it runs 
 >  
 > sudo apt-get autoremove ${SELECTION[@]} 
 >  
 > Thoughts? 
 >  
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Very lightweight, so go for it :)

Kind regards,
Geoffrey De Belie / Smile4ever