<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Ryan Oram <<a href="mailto:ryanoram@trentu.ca">ryanoram@trentu.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Greasemonkey script: <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47591" target="_blank">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47591</a> Firefox extension: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11731/" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11731/</a> Chromium extension: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oljmaangfgmmokjpnojhfblppgeijikp" target="_blank">https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oljmaangfgmmokjpnojhfblppgeijikp</a> I was just wondering if it would be possible to integrate the functionality presented in the extensions and Greasemonkey script above into the standard Firefox, Chromium, and Empathy packages for Ubuntu. I suppose this also could be made a separate package for each browser, like the ubufox extension for Firefox.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm looking into making a website for the "Ubuntu AppUpdate" service and it would be nice to have my users just be able to click on the "apt-get" instructions to install the packages. I realize apturl should already be supported out of the box, but plain apturls often confuse users. In addition, this would make things a lot easier for </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> new users asking questions on the various forums and communities where apturls are not supported. Needless to say, having this behavior set-up out of the box would be very "Apple-esque" and would be a boon to new users. Thanks, Ryan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> Ryan, we are using apturl for GetDeb, we don't get any complains about apturls causing confusion, not in what refers to the links per si. Current apturl issues are: - Not properly integrated out of the box with all browsers, I am not sure about the current status, but the last time I have checked it was not integrated with firefox as installed on Kbuntu and several other browsers available from the repositories - Users don't have the related repositories properly configured before clicking the links - Users don't understand what is a repository and find strange that they don't get a regular file download instead - A cache refresh must be forced if you want to be sure the users will get the latest version (you need refresh=yes on apturls), there is currently no way to force the refresh only for the repository providing the package, this introduces a significant overhead - It's not possible to queue installs by clicking on multiple clicks The greasemonkey script does not really help in any of those problems, apturl is a nice solution, it needs better integration and other improvements. I believe it is the proper tool to invest at. -- João Luís Marques Pinto GetDeb Team Leader <a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a> <a href="http://blog.getdeb.net">http://blog.getdeb.net</a>