On Thursday 01 November 2012 13:44:19 Guido Berhoerster wrote:
It wouldn't tkae too much effort to swap out the PackageKit backend in pk-update-icon with a zypper-based one, in fact I do already have a parser for zyppers XML output from some experiments last year. It uses GTK+ but the UI consists only of a tray icon and notification bubble which would open "yast2 online_update" when activated so it should not look alien in KDE. So if there's a rough consensus that we want to go with a minimal notifier and update via YaST's online_update module I could put something together.
It is not only a matter of the effort required to build something small to perform this task. I have no doubt that you are able to deliver what you indicated, but are you willing to maintain this piece of software for the rest of it's lifecycle ? Because if we introduce another piece of software which will not be supported in the future, then we end up exactly at the same place as we are now. I guess that we should also be looking at the position we are now. Recently this mailinglist has been flooded with complaints with regards to the tools openSUSE is using for booting, repairtools, etc. There were even some indications that other distributions have much better tools, etc. But as soon as it comes to move to a more distro-independent solution, people are coming up that we can create little programs around the tools we have. There is nothing wrong with this, but is this the position we want to be in ?? Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org