> > Does anybody know whether there are plans to do something similar into KDE > for e.g. http://www.kde.org and http://kde-apps.org to show (or even) > download KDE and KDE-applications? Up to now I have seen kpackage's option > for external sources and a search menu for rpms on kde-apps. I understand > that depending on their distro people use YasT, apt, yum, emerge, etc. for > updating applications. > > Why not offer the possibility to search/explore new KDE applications and > download them to a local folder for installation. They should, however, be > made aware of the fact that this can damage their system ;). > > Best regards, > > Claire In KDE 3.4rc, Kdesktop uses knewstuff to download wallpapers from kde-look.org. You click 'get new wallpapers' and a dialog box is shown where you can sort the wallpaper by most popular and it will download them to your $KDEHOME/share/wallpaper folder for you. Perhaps we'll see more of this in other KDE applications to download arch/os independent files like icons and colour schemes? :) -- JH KDE frequently asked questions: http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdebase/faq/ panic("esp_handle: current_SC == penguin within interrupt!"); ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.