The new gnome-software application

[Richard Hughes]

On 6 March 2013 21:59, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Could the RPC call not handle more than one package ID as an argument to
> the icon retrieval function?

Sure, but the amount of bandwidth for the icons is still the same.

> Couldn't you pre-cache the most common icons on disk maybe as part of
> the installation or setup process?

That would kill the server on F19 launch day.

> The server could be appropriately mirrored though right?

Sure, you can mirror the OCS instance (i.e. create slaves) but none of
our mirrors currently run OCS instances that I'm aware of.

Richard.