Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (33 mails)

[Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek@xxxxxxx>]

On 03.11.2010, at 13:31, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:

> On 11/02/2010 04:24 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yes. We don´t have an website for this project yet. :-)
> >
> > But I indeed suggest to use the OCS API and one of the existing client for 
> > openSUSE.
>
> What do you mean with existing client for openSUSE?

Sorry for the bad phrase.
I mean I suggest to use libattica for the communication with the 
server/repository and use the existing KDE GHNS client as native AppStore 
client for the desktop. 
It´s of course possible to write a GTK+ bases frontend on top of libattica if 
the GNOME community don´t like a Qt based AppStore.
I already discussed this with Vincent.


> > MeeGo will use the same system in the next release and others are also 
> > interested.
> > So this could be a nice area of collaboration between different 
> > distributions. It´s also good for
> > openSUSE because most of the AppStore system already exists.
> > It shouldn´t be a problem to launch it for 11.4
> >
> >
> > Open TODOs
> >
> > - Do a meeting with people from other distributions to try to convince 
> > everybody to use the same API. This would be good for the complete Linux 
> > ecosystem.
>
> Makes sense
>
> > - Find a name for the openSUSE AppStore client. Something like "AppStore", 
> > "SoftwareCenter", SoftwareInstaller, ..
>
> > - Create an icon for the client.
> > - Take the existing GHNS client and convert it into a standalone Desktop 
> > client. (very easy)
>
> Get Hot New Stuff? How to hook that up with the app installation?

It´s very easy to transform the existing GHNS app into an AppStore client. We 
only have to feed in the new application categories and add a openSUSE branding 
with nice colors, logo, name and so on.
The user get´s a link to an ymp file if he/she clikcs on install. We could use 
the existing system packagekit/yast system to handle the installation of the 
new application.


> > - Find a domainname for the website (foo.opensuse.org or opensuse-foo.org, 
> > ...)
> > - Decision how the applications are maintained. (scanning of a existing 
> > repository and extracting metadata or user generated entries with ratings, 
> > ...)
> > - Do the backend (Frank)
> > - more I forgot :-)
> >
> > I plan to do a proof of concept in the next few days.
> >
> > We could finalize everything during a 2-3 days developer meeting.
>
> -- 
> Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - Novell® Making IT Work As One™
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)


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Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek@xxxxxxx




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