Hello folks,<br><br>The 'next <a href="http://kde.org">kde.org</a>' will have an button to install packages using PackageKit. It uses .catalog-files for that, an example of such file can be seen at (1). Today I did some research and not less then 25% of the <a href="http://kde.org">kde.org</a> visitors are using Windows. It made me think: "Why would the Install Button not support Windows?" Before you say "No, that's impossible" let me please explain of how I think it can be done.<br>
<br>At this moment the site works like this:<br>1.) detect browserplugin PackageKit. If found goto 2. If not goto 3.<br>2.) Display a button "Install Packagename" that downloads the .catalog-file (which will be handled by PackageKit)<br>
3.) Display some text about not having the plugin and how to get it.<br><br>What would 'we' need for WIndows to be supported?<br>a.) Windows Installer should include a browserplugin so we can know if it is installed on the system (nothing fancy)<br>
b.) Windows Installer should handle .catalog-files<br>c.) And probably warn about dependencies when there are a lot :P<br><br>Too me, it seems this ain't rocket science however, I am no application-developer. This feature would certainly place KDE-Windows in the spotlight and it would be very good promotion when I can send to the press: "KDE.org now supports Windows" ;-)<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Bart Otten, Team KDE-www <br><br>(1) <a href="http://topdownmedia.nl/neverland/catalogi/amarok.catalog">topdownmedia.nl/neverland/catalogi/amarok.catalog</a><br>