Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-10 Thread Tim
(For some reason, this keeps failing to get through to the list -- trying again.) I guess I imagine something more like how Mauku functions. Tapping a Category would take you to: *One list for installed and uninstalled apps: any item that's installed becomes grayed-out (or the zebra stripe

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-09 Thread Ryan Abel
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 >

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread tz
You could run something on maemo.org that would produce an app list in multiple forms with all the extra data n the BROWSER, then a keyed installation target for the app manager which would "do the right thing". This would require a small new API to the app manager that would allow it to do an ins

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Simon Pickering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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? > > Definitely not until the brows

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread Nicolas
Hi, Sorry to jump in a thread like this as a stranger! My name is Nicolas and I am just a N810 owner interested in development. This thread makes a lot of sense to me because as a user I am a bit frustrated with the current AM. So just my 2 cents, I totally second Simon comment about being able

RE: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread Simon Pickering
> 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. Ar

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread gary liquid
Removing the option to install applications listed inside our configured repositories takes away greatly from the system. The UI is at fault, not the actions it performs and data it contains within it. Gary On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > with