[maemo-community] [maemo2midgard] updates on app catalog

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hi,

This list has been very quiet lately. So let me break the ice.

Today we made a svn commit hook with Niels, so the style package is
automagically generated and installed on the internal server upon
every commit. This will help us working on the application catalog
now.

I finally got the time to start hacking on the application catalog
with Niels. Right now I am thinking about splitting the catalog into
multiple catalogs. With this separation we could nicely separate the
apps, which will improve usability.

We plan the followings:
-users browsing the catalog with a tablet will get the apps that are
matching their OS version by default. they can of course browse other
applications as well.
-users coming there from a desktop will get a frontpage with clear
indication of all "catalogs", like OS2005, OS2006 and OS2007 (as of
today).

For the separation I have an idea. After checking a bit of the Midgard
DB tables I think we could do that with a minimal amount of work.
There is a field called "supplier" in the
"org_openpsa_products_product" table. We could make use of this field
and then we change the sql queries accordingly. With this we don't
need to change the metadata that is store in the "record_extension."
table. I would like to get your comments about this twisted idea.

There is a lot more things to be done with the app catalog, but those
are mainly "sql queries". All the planned changes are documented in
our tracker.

Have a nice day,
ferenc