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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: bmarkus on July 28, 2009, 03:43:20 AM

Title: Appbrowser messages
Post by: bmarkus on July 28, 2009, 03:43:20 AM

When an already installed extension is installed, appbrowser displays

... installed successfully!

Would be more informative to show

... already installed!

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: roberts on July 28, 2009, 09:05:28 AM

Done!  Will be in 2.2 final.

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: Juanito on July 28, 2009, 10:34:06 AM

While we're at it, could we have the appbrowser remember where it was in the file structure when it last loaded an extension locally, so that the user can more easily load more than one extension from the same place  :)

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: roberts on July 28, 2009, 01:44:41 PM

At first I thought I may have left appbrowser opening at / or /home/tc but no, appbrowser does open to the specified 'tce' direcectory and if an optional subdirectory exists, a menu item becomes available.

There should be little reason to store extensions scattered across the filesystem. The whole point of specifiying tce= or autoscanning such is to have easy access to extension collections. Am I missing something?

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: Juanito on July 28, 2009, 02:03:49 PM

I agree with the reasoning, its just that I keep the extensions I use all the time in /tce, the extensions I use some of the time in /tce/optional and a whole bunch of extensions I use occasionally somewhere else...

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: 3rail on July 28, 2009, 02:31:19 PM

I think it would be handy if the "download only" button would allow you to download an extension and all of its dependencies even if it's already installed.  Often I find myself in the situation where I'd like to get the wireless extensions, or opera, or whatever via the appbrowser on one tc machine and copy them via sneakernet to another tc machine that doesn't have an internet connection (I haven't had any luck just copying the installed tce's from the running machine -- iwconfig for example always says its missing a library even though I copied all the tce's from the running tc machine).  If the "download only" button worked even if the extension is installed on the host machine, I could be sure that I've copied the extension and all of its dependencies from "optional" without having to guess what belongs to what  (or have to go look up every dependency for an extension).

Just a thought.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: roberts on July 28, 2009, 04:17:47 PM

"Download Only" to ignore installed status. OK.

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: roberts on July 29, 2009, 12:37:05 AM

Quote from: Juanito on July 28, 2009, 02:03:49 PM

I agree with the reasoning, its just that I keep the extensions I use all the time in /tce, the extensions I use some of the time in /tce/optional and a whole bunch of extensions I use occasionally somewhere else...

OK. It shall be.

Consider this a feature freeze for v2.2
As soon as it is completed I will release v2.2.

Title: Re: Appbrowser messages
Post by: roberts on July 29, 2009, 01:17:45 PM

Completed. I have released V2.2 to team private preview.
Public should hopefully follow soon.