Bill Nottingham wrote:
Denis Leroy (denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
For kicks and giggles, I hacked up a proof-of-concept RPM here for F-8 :
http://www.poolshark.org/src/fedora-apps-0.1-1.fc8.i386.rpm
After installation, you'll have to restart the gnome-panel with a quick
'killall gnome-panel'. The rpm is 5 MB, which is not bad for almost 1000
apps (remember we're only talking about GUI apps here, i.e. apps that
install a desktop file).
Interesting idea. You're setting yourself up for a lot of pain on the
package maintenance side, I fear.
Well that all depends on how much scripting I'm prepared to make :-)
I used a number of scripts to extract the desktop and icon files out of
the RPMs, parse the desktop files, etc... in theory it's 100%
scriptable. Now, things would be considerably easier if this was
integrated into packagedb: flag packages that have desktop entries, add
information such as short description and icon. Then we could push the
idea further and add things such as screenshots, for example. Then we'd
have all the raw data necessary to create a real "fedora software
installation assistant".
There are some challenges to providing this through a regular package
review though: may need collaboration with redhat-menus (integration
into main menu) and/or desktop-utils owners (to update list of
uninstalled apps after an RPM is installed manually).
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