Comments on: zypper: First download everything, then installl http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/584#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed homepage Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Conference 2009 Reports | Boycott Novell http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/584/comment-page-1#comment-99111 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Conference 2009 Reports | Boycott Novell Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:18:12 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/584#comment-99111 <p>[...] the technical side, Duncan writes about zypper, as usual, Sascha Manns puts another package in OBS and here is a new set of instructions for Avidemux on [...]</p> [...] the technical side, Duncan writes about zypper, as usual, Sascha Manns puts another package in OBS and here is a new set of instructions for Avidemux on [...]

]]> By: Robert Forsyth http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/584/comment-page-1#comment-99097 Robert Forsyth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:24:31 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/584#comment-99097 <p>Instead of having the superuser install an application, could the user just use the launcher search and automatically install applications from trusted repositories. You would need a service to properly index the applications, so that they can easily be filtered, rated, reviewed, etc.</p> <p>The user may have an unusual file/document, the open function would have to determine the (MIME) type, and then un-installed applications/services could be offered to open that (MINE) type, also filtering on other attributes, and sorting by rating - a bit like the Plasma widget installer. I'm not sure how you get the best, but new and little used application to sort to the top of the list - I suppose branding.</p> Instead of having the superuser install an application, could the user just use the launcher search and automatically install applications from trusted repositories. You would need a service to properly index the applications, so that they can easily be filtered, rated, reviewed, etc.

The user may have an unusual file/document, the open function would have to determine the (MIME) type, and then un-installed applications/services could be offered to open that (MINE) type, also filtering on other attributes, and sorting by rating – a bit like the Plasma widget installer. I’m not sure how you get the best, but new and little used application to sort to the top of the list – I suppose branding.

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