[Gambas-user] Gambas Software Farm in revision #6676

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 24/11/2014 15:37, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> As far as I know from KDE 3 and 4,
>
>> - A *.desktop file is created and installed in
>> '~/.local/share/applications' so that it appears in the desktop menu.
>
> the .desktop files are stored in ~/Desktop. On my system,
> firefox.desktop is the only one residing in ~/.local/share/applications
> and there is a copy of it in ~/Desktop.

I'm talking about the desktop application menu: this is a 
freedesktop.org standard. To add a menu entry, you have to install a 
*.desktop file in that folder.

>
> By the way, the farm is a very good idea!
>
> And it reminded me of your idea of a simple picture editor. I needed
> such a thing this weekend, but in lack of other software I used Gimp
> instead which is a bit of a functional dinosaur for just cutting an area
> from a smartphone photo and reducing the resulting picture to a smaller
> size...

You can use the image editor of the IDE. It has a few bugs, but it is 
useful for not so simple tasks.

>
> Thinking about your idea, I came to the point where it should be
> possible to just "install" such a program, with all dependencies (and
> the Gambas interpreter itself) installing automagically.
>
> As far as I understand, your farm will work like this. The only thing
> I'm not clear about is if you intend the farm to be for people just
> using the software or for potential Gambas programmers who want to take
> a look at the code?
>

The last goal: the farm server can only host source code archive. The 
source code is compiled on the user's system, but the source remains 
available.

In other words, it's not a "market place". :-)

-- 
Benoît Minisini