Re: Zero Install: Software index

> And my thought was that there *has* to be "something else"
> than .desktop files, so wanted to make a Zero Install index.
This reminds me of a question I stumbled upon when I first looked at
0desktop. Where does it get its list of "currently installed applications"
from? Does it just scan for .desktop files it created?
For the Windows implementation I was planning on creating a MyApps.xml file
that would contain a list of interface URIs the user chose to "install"
along with flags indicating what kind of shortcuts to create (desktop, start
menu, etc.).
This list of "my applications" would be portable across computers; maybe
eventually stored in the cloud.

Another possible use of a single file listing all interfaces a user
considers "installed": A system daemon could crawl all those files and use
that information to determine which implementations are still in use by
someone and which can be purged from the cache.

> As input it takes a list of interfaces, either uris or files.
> Output e.g. http://afb.users.sourceforge.net/zero-install/index/
> The remaining part is adding categories and installed/criteria to
0desktop, and have it (optionally) load such index.xml files.
Looks great. I'd use this as a data source for the Windows implementation's
main GUI as well.
Once the user has installed Zero Install he or she is immediately presented
with a list of applications that can now be launched.

> What do you think ? Did I get something wrong in the XML markup ?
The "injector installation instructions" link is dead. It points to
http://0install/injector.html instead of http://0install.net/injector.html

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