Launchpad Integration with the deskop: thoughts?

[Sivan Green]

On 15:30, Sun 06 Feb 05, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sivan Green">
> 
> >  As per the intent to make accessing rosetta's service
> >  offerings clickable from the desktop, I experimented bits
> >  with some of the gnome base libs and tend to think  that the
> >  right place for this is maybe on each application "About"
> >  boxes, which in  few gnome  apps are already used to reference 
> >  the user to the app's  website, to report a bug onto gnome's bugzilla etc.
> > 
> >  The idea is to patch libgnomeui and libgtk at the about
> >  boxes code level, to include buttons that would open
> >  moz-firefox windows , with the matching rosetta, malone,
> >  and doap pages of the application. This would:
> > 
> >    1) Make the patches small and relatively non intrusive.
> >    2) Reach many apps with 2-3 centeralized patches.
> > 
> > 
> >  Does this sound sane?
> 
> Yes, this is what we agreed on at Mataró. ;-)
> 
> - Jeff

RAWK!


Sivan