Re: LibO Install/Update ( was [tdf-discuss] Automatic Updates)

> As I mentioned before, the opendesktop.org website like kde-look.org,
> gnome-apps.org, InkscapeStuff.org, and so on seem to be a better way,
> to me, to distribute extensions, templates, and other add-ons.  The
> websites are specifically designed for this, and they implement a
> freedesktop.org standard called Get Hot New Stuff, or GHNS, which is
> specifically designed to allow programs to search for, identify,
> categorize, retrieve, and update add-ons.
>
> They are used extensively by both gnome and kde for distributing
> everything from wallpapers and color schemes to desktop widgets and
> file manager extensions, and they appear to have a mechanism to filter
> out results that are not compatible with the current version of
> whatever program is trying to install them.
>
> Rather than wasting the time and effort to design an entire new system
> from scratch, I think it would be better to use an existing standard
> tool like this, especially if the goal is to play well with the rest
> of the open-source ecosystem.

Thanks for this excellent description of the OpenDesktop.org system. Now 
I finally understand its purpose and why some people are pushing it. It 
could be that many users like myself, have no idea of what 
opendesktop.org does.

So just to simplify it for those who are like me and who do not realize 
the process behind the opendesktop.org update system (I'll use KDE4.5.X 
as an example): *** please correct these if I am wrong ***

If you want to update your wallpaper, you can right-click on the desktop 
area, choose "Folder view settings" and then "Get more wallpapers", this 
will connect you with the kde-look.org (hosted by opendesktop.org) and 
it will get for you the latest wallpapers from the site. This is also 
used if you want to change you KDE themes or ... on the KDE desktop. All 
of these updates are taken care of by the opendesktop.org standard. (The 
same has apparently been adopted by the Gnome people too.)

The suggestion here, is that rather than having different Linux distros 
using their own updating process (rpm, deb, ...), LibO could adopt the 
opendesktop.org standard. This will reduce the amount of work needed 
when a new version of LibO is announced.

This to me makes a lot of sense as far as making the updating of LibO as 
painless as possible. I imagine if a Linux distro wanted to make LibO 
conform to its look and feel, they could then use their own devs and 
take care of this on their own. But, from LibO's point of view I vote 
this a good idea.

Marc

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