[Pardus-devel] Idea for Package-Manager

[Michael Austin]

Hello Everyone,

I was looking at the CNR service that Linspire are developing that
will cover a number of distributions, not just their own Linspire and
Freespire [1].  The screenshots section [2] gave me an idea for future
development of Package-Manager.

On the screenshots you can see there is the package name, description,
version and other information.  In addition to these you can see there
is a screenshot of the application.  This is the part that gave me the
idea.

My idea is that Package-Manager should continue to show the package
name, description, package size, version number and link to home page,
but in addition the chosen package should display a screenshot of the
chosen application.

My idea is that Package-Manager should display a small scaled down
version of the screenshot, and clicking it opens a larger version.  To
cater for those with low bandwidth connections the small image could
open link to a larger version from the internet.  The small scalaed
down version could be cached locally like the package list.  To
further cater for low bandwidth users, the screenshots could be
disabled, meaning no screenshots are displayed or downloaded and
cached.

The images could be low quality jpeg images.  During the build process
on the build server, the images could be scaled using imagemagik or
something similar.  Each developer could take a screenshot of the
application and then add to the pspec of the package.  Then commit the
image along with the pspec, actions and other files.

I do not fully understand the workings of Pisi, but my idea seems possible.

If requested I can try to make a mock up of my idea to demonstrate how
Package-Manager could look.

Michael (Tuxedup)

[1]  http://www.cnr.com/

[2]  http://www.cnr.com/screenshots.html

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