Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (71 mails)

[Ricardo Cruz <rpmcruz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Qua, 2007-10-31 às 15:31 +0100, Christian Jäger escreveu:
> Am Montag, den 29.10.2007, 22:34 +0000 schrieb Ricardo Cruz:
> >  It seems people are interested interested in using PackageKit
> > (http://www.packagekit.org/) which is meant to be a common package and
> > update manager interface common for all distributions, they would just
> > adapt the backend.
> >  But such work would require quite some effort, and there doesn't seem
> > to exist any serious effort at the moment, so we should probably work
> > out yast-gtk's selector.
>
> They seem to want to go in the same direction, judging from the mock-ups
> on their page. So perhaps there can be some reciprocal code-contribution
> at a later time? Other than that, I agree. There are many merits in
> PackageKit but no advantage in usability; the project is too young to
> have received much user-feedback.
 When I meant it requires serious effort, I wasn't talking about the GTK
interface, but rather about the all operation. You know, installer's
integration, Qt/ncurses interface, Zypp backend, extending it for
Patterns and Languages. Possibly other stuff...

> I'm certainly missing some dev-packages in order for your python script
> to work

 Oh, you don't know what you're missing. PyGtk rocks for RAD. ;)

> Found an image here:
> http://www.movingtofreedom.org/images/2007/03/ubuntu-add-remove-applications.jpg
> I guess it is 'Synaptic in disguise'; pretty much standard, really - but
> the simple categorization, the nicely detailed descriptions of the
> applications and the colourful icons set it apart.
>
> This is not what I would want for openSUSE, but it is a list-view done
> right IMHO.
 Of course, it gets trickier when you want to present multiple versions,
and allow for upgrades.
 Anyway, I guess we might go in that direction. I prefer though to have
external buttons, rather than those check boxes. I think I would go for
something like PackageKit.

 So, when I have the time, I will work on the storage, so we have some
nice API, with some flexibility for some interface designing... We could
maybe share some more thoughts then...

Cheers,
 Ricardo



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