Packaging of Prism applications

Registered by Siegfried Gevatter

How do we package Prism applications?

 a) Lots of binary packages. How do we prevent a flood; do we accept any image?

 b) Cross-distro solution. Do we create some new repo (something simple, doesn't need anything complicated) which hosts packages consisting of a .desktop file and an icon, and write an application to manage them (both at system-wide or at user level)?

 c) Other ideas?

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Complete
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None
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Undefined
Drafter:
Mozilla Extensions Team
Direction:
Needs approval
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Superseded
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Implementation:
Started
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Started by
Siegfried Gevatter
Completed by
Siegfried Gevatter

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RainCT: After discussing this with fta, we decided to go with approach b) but installing the repository as a package and not including icons in it but URLs to where the icons can be get.

This is now tracked as https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-prism-webapp-repository

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