On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs<dmitrij.led...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/16 Raphaël Pinson <raph...@gmail.com>: >> Hello, >> >> I have a proposal to improve the usability of BibleTime for end users. >> Currently, when you install modules, whether locally or systemwide, >> you need to build the indexes before peforming searches. In >> Debian/Ubuntu, quite a few modules are packaged and shipped as .deb, >> making them available to all users. I think it would be great if the >> indexes could be compiled and installed systemwide aswell. From what I >> see, this would require 2 things : >> * that BibleTime search for clucene indexes in /usr/share/foo in >> addition to ~ ; >> * that there exists a CLI tool to generate the indexes from the modules. >> >> >> With these two conditions, packagers could generate the indexes from >> the modules as they package them, and ship them together for >> systemwide installation, which would allow all users on the system to >> benefit from the indexes without building them. >> >> >> Feedback on the idea is welcome :-) >> >> >> Raphaël Pinson >> >
Hi Dmitrijs, Thank you for your feedback. > Sure. On the debian/ubuntu side we were getting around to look into > packaging modules (it is possible they are out-of date) > > One request (which was heatedly discussed before) is to show users > 1) which modules are system-wide and hence need to use Kpackagekit to > remove/add > 2) for user to be able to show / hide those modules I think this is outiside of the scope of system-wide indexes. While I agree that it could be nice to allow users to find modules to install systemwide using a systemwide package manager, I'd have a question about that: is this the way it is done currently in Ubuntu/Kubuntu (e.g. for modules in Firefox). BibleTime is now pure Qt (unless I'm wrong) so it's not KDE-specific anymore, and people who use it might not have KpackageKit or any other KDE app installed, so I don't think it would be good to rely on KDE-specific programs. I'd be interested to know how it's currently done in Ubuntu. > Eg. If for example one user wants to study / view all of the modules > while another user just wants to work with smaller amount of modules. > > From me additional request would be if Bibletime can hook into > Kpackagekit to show which modules are available for system-wide > install and optionally install them. Kpackagekit is distro-agnostic > and will work in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora if they will have modules > packaged. > > more info at http://packagekit.org/ > > -- > With best regards > > > Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), > Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
