An idea for the appdb

[James Mckenzie]

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From: James Mckenzie <[email protected]>
Sent: Feb 11, 2009 7:27 AM
To: Ben Klein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: An idea for the appdb

Ben Klein <[email protected]> wrote:

2009/2/11 Luke Benstead <[email protected]>:

Hi all,

I was thinking earlier it would be quite nice if when I double clicked
a Windows app in GNOME it would display a nice dialog saying something
like "This Windows application may not run correctly as it is
currently rated Silver. Please report any bugs to the Wine project.
Continue | Cancel". Obviously this kind of functionality is not a job
for Wine, but for the distro. Still, it got me thinking how this kind
of functionality might be achieved.

There's been quite a bit of discussion along these lines recently.
Unfortunately, AppDB simply isn't reliable enough for this type of
dependence. With any luck, that will change when the recently
discussed redesign of test data submissions is set up, but it'd still
take a long time for sensible data to become reasonably usable.

Another area to think about is that users should be able to opt-in for this
type of functionality. Surprising users is not a good thing when they go
to run their favorite application. This may drop the load on the system,
and give users an idea what is going on.

James McKenzie