From kde-core-devel  Thu Jun 20 08:35:22 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:35:22 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: "get hot new stuff" button
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102456218010656

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On Thursday 20 June 2002 12:20, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wednesday 19 June 2002 23:20, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > I have implemented a "get hot new stuff" button (well in fact it's a
> > menu entry) for KOrganizer. The code is fairly general and could
> > probably easily be extended to other apps. It's in
> > kdepim/korganizer/knewstuff.
> >
> > Some things are still missing:
> > - Remember what already has been installed.
> > - UI to select the language of the stuff to be installed.
> > - A bit of server infratructure for uploading stuff (i.e. something like
> > an ftp upload area and a way to collect and move the uploaded stuff to
> > the download area).
> > - A customizable way to preview stuff before download.
> > - DTDs for the XML files used for provider list and the meta information
> > about the new stuff.
> >
> > But the basic functionality for choosing, downloading and uploading is
> > there. Before I proceed I would like to ask what you think about it and
> > how it goes together with the other efforts to implement this kind of
> > functionality.
> 
> I have something similiar in kate for downloading additional highlighting 
> descriptions.

So there are 2 (or 3?) different implementations of the same thing,
with duplicated code in the apps having this feature and nothing
available in kdelibs? Sounds good.... :{

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