Online Desktop run-through

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:00 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >  -- There is a "Show in sidebar" check box for pinning the application in
> >  > the Applications widget.
> >
> >  All of these seem to work inconsistently. "Nibbles" for example misses
> >  all of the details.
> >
> >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526937
> 
> This is because we are not successfully fetching all the applications:
> 
> "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG don't have
> local cache for http://online.gnome.org:80/xml/allapplications"
> "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG Got 0 apps
> for all apps from http"
> "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG all apps are loaded"
> 
> The following patches fixes it, but I couldn't track down why we are
> using cache-only there. Anyone knows it?

It might be we were planning to ship a static copy in the distribution,
but never did that?  The apps list is 250k of XML, not a lot but not
completely trivial either to just download by default.  Though I bet
gzip would do wonders on it.