[maemo-developers] What category should network filesystems like OpenAFS go under?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM, tz <thomas at mich.com> wrote:
>> This is a problem since there may be various enhancements which are
>> part of an EXISTING interface.  Consider media codecs like ogg
>> support
> 
> If an ogg support package instantly provides ogg capability in
> existing media players, without any further configuration; no further
> GUI is required and it can go directly in user/multimedia.

Problems should be solved properly, not with user unfriendly kludges.
How "aunt Tilly" would know which codec package to install?

For the media codecs, the device should detect that a currently
unsupported codec is needed and ask user whether one should be
downloaded.


>> filesystems.  Or for example I ported WebDav so I have
>> access to my mac.com idisk from my tablet.  I could write a trivial
>> user/password popup, but that is the tail wagging the dog.
> 
> No, it's not wagging the dog. If a user needs to open a terminal,
> create a configuration file and run something from the command line; I
> *strongly* believe it's outside the scope of the Application Manager.
> 
> Since there's a requirement to use the terminal to configure it, it is
> no extra step to require the user to use apt-get to install it.

Agree.


	- Eero