Re: [E-devel] Proposal for modules automatic download

[Cedric B. <ced...@fr...>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Viktor Kojouharov
<vko...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:32 +0100, luchezar Petkov wrote:
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>> On 12/15/08 3:17 PM, Matteo wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Do you think that in the future plans could be useful a "button" for
>> > automatic select and download (from the net) third-party modules that e17
>> > could have?
>> >
>> > I mean:
>> > I saw that Massimiliano has integrated the wallpaper selection with an
>> > useful button for download the wallpaper from the e17 website directly from
>> > the wallpaper selection interface, so I'm asking you: do you think that
>> > could be useful to made the same thing to modules selection form?
>> >
>> > It could be useful to have a central widget repository to download from,
>> > every user interested in making widget could subscribe and upload his work,
>> > and every e17 user could benefit from this.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>>
>> I think this is a good idea. Firefox 3.x has a great integration with
>> AMO (addons.mozilla.org). See Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons. It loads
>> basic info and a screenshot of some popular stuff and the user can
>> download and install the thing he/she wants with just one click.
>> Similar thing could be done in E and Exchange.
>
> firefox addons are are js/html/css lumped together. modules on the other
> hand are linked libraries, so it'd be very hard to provide compiled
> version for every possible combination of systems out there.

Perhaps it's possible to do something with pure edje modules. I
remember I saw someone proposing this already.

But doing this kind of work would require giving much more information
to edje and the ability to manipulate it (Information from E itself,
but also from other apps or from the net). And if we go that route we
need to do it safely and efficiently. I remember reading something
regarding this kind of issue but for KDE Plasma, where they did
introduce the idea of information producer and information consumer.
Or something like that. Anyway, it's a huge amount of work to do.
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Cedric BAIL