Gerald, On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 13:35 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
As an avid user of Factory/Tumbleweed, I am trying to update even while traveling when, often, Internet connectivity is slow and/or unreliable.
What I noticed is that trying to refresh appdata-icons.tar.gz (and appdata-failed.html) takes a disproportional amount of time. So I looked into
appdata-failed.html would be no problem to get rid of... it's mainly
for 'reference purpose' and is not 'required' for operations (but
looking at the size, I don't think those 350KB will really make a huge
impact)
the icons tarball is a bit trickier. Removing this will mean to break
the integration of software centers (currently only GNOME Software, KDE
is planning an own one, even yast might go that way at one point).
What CAN probably easily be done would be to eliminate the HiDPI
(128x128) icons from the tarball.. of course, at the cost of users
having a HiDPI screen. This would cut the size of appdata-icons.tar.gz
down to 2.6MB from 7.5MB (I tried changing it to .xz or .bz2; it's not worth the
efforts)
So, the question basically boils down to: do we want to have proper
support for HiDPI in our setup or do we not care for those users.
Dominique
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger