Expanding of games.xml

[Dean Sas]

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Matthew East wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
>> Matthew East wrote:
>>  > Hiya,
>>  >
>>  > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
>>  >> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >  On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >  >  Does Yelp support links with apt: URLs (like <apt:neverball>)?
>>  >>  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  If it does, wherever Ubuntu Help currently tells you to install a
>>  >>  >  >  package and refers to the help section about installing a package, it
>>  >>  >  >  could instead just provide a link with the relevant apt: URL.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >  I don't think it has that feature. It would be a good one though!
>>  >>  >  Although, we'd need to make sure that we have a good way to deal with
>>  >>  >  it when publishing the same documents on help.ubuntu.com too.
>>  >>
>>  >>  It does have that feature - I just gave it a try. The apt URLs will
>>  >>  work on the website as long as you're using firefox, I imagine there
>>  >>  are plans to  implement it in Konqueror too.
>>  >
>>  > Are you referring to yelp, or firefox?
>>
>>  Yelp. (along with presumably anything else with a gecko backend)
> 
> Wow, that's quite exciting. So, we could move to using apt urls
> instead of "See Adding Applications for more information" during this
> release.

Mostly, the exception that proves the rule are applications in the
- -commercial repository.

The tooltip when you hover over the link just says "apt://packagename"
which is not particularly informative. To make it more obvious what will
happen when the link is clicked perhaps we should always phrase this as:

<ulink url="apt://last-exit">Install <application>Last
Exit</application</ulink> to listen to last.fm radio.

Maybe there's something interesting we can do with ulinks 'type'
attribute too, though it'd probably take a patch to yelps xsl.

Upon clicking the link you get a little dialogue saying "Install Last
Exit?" and an expander to show the packages description.

Dean





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