Online Desktop run-through

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:00 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  >  -- There is a "Show in sidebar" check box for pinning the application in
>  > >  > the Applications widget.
>  > >
>  > >  All of these seem to work inconsistently. "Nibbles" for example misses
>  > >  all of the details.
>  > >
>  > >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526937
>  >
>  > This is because we are not successfully fetching all the applications:
>  >
>  > "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG don't have
>  > local cache for http://online.gnome.org:80/xml/allapplications"
>  > "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG Got 0 apps
>  > for all apps from http"
>  > "14:51:21 [46912496198016] bigboard.stocks.AppsStock DEBUG all apps are loaded"
>  >
>  > The following patches fixes it, but I couldn't track down why we are
>  > using cache-only there. Anyone knows it?
>
>  It might be we were planning to ship a static copy in the distribution,
>  but never did that?  The apps list is 250k of XML, not a lot but not
>  completely trivial either to just download by default.  Though I bet
>  gzip would do wonders on it.

Pushed the patch as discussed in irc. (That code would have been
broken even if the plan was to ship a static list).

Marco