[Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

Fri Mar 16 10:02:07 CET 2012

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:10, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
+> 15.03.2012 22:07, Dan Fandrich kirjoitti:
+>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:25:40PM +0100, n54 at gmx.com wrote:
+>>> * stop using Mandriva URLs and replace them by www.mageia.org (mga#1590)
+>>> * replace Mandriva strings by Mageia in gnome-mandrakeonline.desktop
+>>> * replace MIME Type application/x-mdv-exec by application/x-mga-exec
+>>
+>> Replacing Mandriva -> Mageia in user-visible text makes sense, but what
+>> exactly is the MIME type used for? If the underlying data format hasn't
+>> changed (whatever it is), then this isn't something that should really be
+>> modified, any more than renaming image/vnd.microsoft.icon to something
+>> else.
+>
+> +1, we shouldn't change the MIME type here.
+
+Agreed. But it's not that important now: this code portion was a
+prototype at the time, has not been used/tested for years (no Kiosk
+server serving application/x-mdv-exec since Dec. 2006), and this MIME
+type was created for this very use case.
+
+Should we think about some sort of Web-based app store, we'd need to
+redesign it from scratch and in a better, modular way (options are not
+the same today).
+