Re: promoting good gnome apps via news.gnome.org

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 16 Jun 2009, at 11:26, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

> In some cases, you can even include just a link that people can click.
> You can install, say, Transmission in Ubuntu from the browser using  
> a link pointing to "apt:transmission", and in OpenSUSE you can use  
> the one click installer-thing "http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:11.1/standard/transmission.ymp 
> ".
> The closest thing I could find for Fedora is outlined in a blog post  
> from Hugsie [1], but that requires a mozilla plugin apparently.

And FWIW, OpenSolaris also has one-click web install for its IPS  
packaging system:
<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/testing/projects/new-app/webinstall/ 
>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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