On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the current AM is a pretty unfriendly place for browsing a long list > of available applications. In the past, I kept saying that I don't want > the AM to turn into a portal for applications, that should be left to > the browser. We have downloads.maemo.org, which is this portal. Are > people using it? As a thought experiment, could we remove the "Browse > installable applications" button from the AM and get by with just > downloads.maemo.org? Should we work on better integration? > Downloads.maemo.org could use information from the device to give a view > that is nicely tailored to each device. > I really hate browsing Downloads on the device. .installs are awkward, Downloads is slow and irritating and the browser just isn't responsive enough. My personal desire is to see h-a-m become similar to the AppStore as the one-stop-shop for applications and packages. Native applications will always be faster, slicker and more usable than a web-based equivalent. Especially on a mobile device. > Applications might want to do their own add-on management, or want to > defer to a central application that is good at it. For example, the > theme selector could list available themes in addition to the installed > ones. The media player might be able to figure out that a codec add-on > is missing and offer to install it. This goes into the direction of > PackageKit and "package management as a system service". Something to > keep in mind. It'll take some non-trivial amount of work and > commitment. > I like this idea, but the implementation sounds rather involved. Maybe something to target for farther down the road, but not really something I see as realistic in the Fremantle timeframe. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
