On 4/10/07, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
The openSUSE updater is a desktop applet which shows the user the available updates (patches). It is very light and simple as the real work is done by the YaST solver. This allows us to provide one applet per desktop, much like you have a a NetworkManager applet per desktop.
The KDE applet was born last year as a Google SoC project. Today I imported the opensuseupdater KDE applet sources from berlios to svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp. The gnome applet was already in the zypp repository.
There is a new wiki page for both the KDE and Gnome applet. * http://en.opensuse.org/Updater_Applet
The sources for both applets are located here:
* http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/trunk/updater-gnome/ * http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/SuSE-Linux-10_2-Branch/updater-kde...
Also, there is a work branch for the KDE applet where a major refactoring is going on to cleanup legacy code from SoC, use cmake as build system and load the backends as KDE plugins. It will become trunk once it works:
http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/work/updater-kde-refactoring/updat...
Just email me for any question!
cheers
Nice stuff. Are there any plans to have an option in the updater to make it work like an upgrader (bug #216097), as well? There was a discussion about this at a status meeting a while back, and it was generally concluded (also by AJ, as I recall) that it would be nice to have (very frequently-requested feature; zen-updater worked like that, even if it was a bug, and people really liked it) as an option, but not -- of course -- enabled by default. Kind thoughts, -------------- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos on irc.freenode.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org