Re: a bug in default .mozconfig

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Alexander Sack <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > FWIW, Ubuntu has that (uploaded yesterday) ... I improved the plugin
> > finger service in a way that allows users to have a choice and we host
> > a plugin finder service that contains a database where all apt
> > packages are registered .... see
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/pfs/screens/pfs1.png
> > ... http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/pfs/screens/pfs2.png ...
> What do you think about offer the possibility to show only
> free-software plugins?  It can be done at server-side and we can share
> this other service as well.

I'm not convinced it is a good idea to have filtering done at server-side.
It would be IMHO much better if it was filtered at client side, it can then
be possible to allow the user to show the non-free plugins if they want, or
even, display them when there's nothing else (with a note indicating it's
not free).

Also, both sides should be backwards compatible if possible, so that
current unpatched binaries can use our system and our patched binaries
can use the mozilla datasource.

Mike