Expanding of games.xml

[Dean Sas]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
>  > Matthew East wrote:
>  >  > 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 packages from the
commercial repository.