On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24 January 2014 10:54, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My take away from the discussion so far is that the current board would not accept >> anything that 'automates' access to such external software. Doesn't matter if we ship >> the metadata on the ISO or not. > > Did they define 'automates'? Is there a required level of pain that we > have to make the user go through? At the moment it's just "type chrome > into google; click an rpm; input your password". I don't see how > that's any harder than "type a chrome into the software center; click > install; agree to the EULA; input your password". As long as software center doesn't know to go directly to the site containing the chrome repo, that is possible. >> The only thing that I can see flying with the current board is a system that is 'blind' to what it is offering, just like >> a web browser. > > So perhaps when the user clicks install, it just opens the browser to > something like https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ ? -- > that's perfectly doable right now, but the UX would be pretty, well, > unusual. Possibly. I believe the Board would like some informative messaging around 3rd party software, it's lack of support from Fedora, etc. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
