A PackageKit browser plugin
Owen Taylor
otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 18:39:34 UTC 2008
We've been working on a website for browsing (rating, commenting,
etc) available applications for Fedora. As part of that we wanted
to be able to install/run software from the website.
I spent the last day hacking up a quick browser plugin:
If the package is not installed but is available in the package
repository, the plugin will show:
+------------------------------------+
| _Install GNU Backgammon Now_ |
| Version: 20061119-14.fc9 |
+------------------------------------+
Click on the plugin, and it will fire off gpk-install-package to install
the package; the display changes to:
+------------------------------------+
| GNU Backgammon |
| Installing... |
+------------------------------------+
once that is done (or if the package was already installed), the plugin
will show:
+------------------------------------+
| _Run GNU Backgammon_ |
| Installed version: 20061119-14.fc9 |
+------------------------------------+
Given wide usage of PackageKit and availability of the plugin, this
could also be pretty neat to put on third-party project pages. The
information you provide as parameters to the plugin is:
The name of the application for display
A list of possible package names
A list of possible desktop file names for the application
So it should be pretty robust against inter-distro differences in
package names.
README File:
http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/packagekit-plugin/tree/README
Getting the source:
git clone git://git.fishsoup.net/packagekit-plugin
What do people think... does this make sense as part of the PackageKit
project?
- Owen
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