[maemo-developers] Packaging a bookmark?

[From: Gary Birkett]

if the app passes the extras-testing criteria why shouldn't it be there.

good on you Thomas!


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM, David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com> wrote:

> confession: I was all set to rant about 'web apps' in HAM :)
>
> However, I apologise : it's a nice app. I can see why you'd want it
> packaged and
> visible; I've added it to my desktop.
> (Nb, map needs to be scrollable - but you knew that)
>
> I think it would make sense for you to get karma for it and for it to be
> published via the Extras process; it truly is an N900 web application
> (heck, it
> even has a dependency on maemo-geolocation).
>
> I also think it makes sense for HAM to allow web-apps to be published but I
> personally don't think it's there yet - maybe packaging this up as a
> desktop/app
> mgr launch icon is the way to go. Nokia led the way with the 'ovi store'
> link.
> Eventually maybe we'll see better presentation... but the issue may need
> forcing.
>
> I do worry about a proliferation of packaged web links though - I thin I'd
> like
> some kind of bar to be set here.
>
> David
>
> Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as long as the app manager is a flat list of things i'd oppose to
> > this. It's already a problem to finger scroll to the list of
> gcompris-packages.
> > Having to also scroll though a list of bookmarks would make things worse.
> >
> > Till
> >
> > Am Freitag 20 November 2009 schrieb Thomas Waelti:
> >> Hello list
> >>
> >> Some of you might have seen my Google Maps "webapplication" called
> maeMaps (http://tomch.com/maemaps.html)
> >>
> >> As it is a always online app anyway, I would like to distribute through
> Extras not an offline version, but just a bookmark to the online version.
> >> This would have the advantage for endusers that people can easily find
> it through the Application Catalog and for me as a developer greater freedom
> in updaating and integration with other services.
> >>
> >> Is that allowed and acceptable? Does it make sense in my case? What
> would you do in such a case?
> >>
> >> Best regards and a happy weekend
> >> -Tom
>
>
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