Re: [gentoo-dev] kportagemaster

[Sebastian Kratzert <skratzert@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2002 18:12 schrieb Terje Kvernes:
> Sebastian Kratzert <skratzert@gmx.de> writes:
> > Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2002 03:10 schrieb Terje Kvernes:
> > > 1) some way of parsing the output from emerge so we get some sort
> > >    of readable output.  \r-usage doesn't go well with the current
> > >    version.

If you know how, *please* tell me.

> > What sort of parsing do you mean?
>
>   something to make the output from actions sort of readable.  the
>   simplest fix would be to be able to get the widget that the output
>   gets pasted into to understand \r.
>
>   oh, and could you make it possible to set the foreground and
>   background colors in the widgets?
>
> > > 2) after I've done an action I'd like to be at the same spot in the
> > >    tree, with the same view that I had earlier.  now the tree
> > >    collapses and resets itself after doing it's thing.  this is
> > >    rather annoying.  the most correct behavior is probably to let
> > >    jobs just run, and not interfere with the GUI at all.  this
> > >    does, however, pose some other troubles, like transparently
> > >    updating the tree(s).  but it would be neat.  expanded to
> > >    allowing several tasks at the same time sometime into the
> > >    future.  ;-)
> >
> > This feature we discussed several times, but it's hard to update the tree
> > transparently. So we pushed this task back in TODO. ;)
>
>   okay, nice to know you're on it.  in the meantime, just making the
>   menu return to its previous state would be very nice indeed.

Will try to expand the tree to the last selected ebuild.

> > > 3) we have "all", and "merged" panes.  I can live without the
> > >    "non-merged" one, but can I get '*' instead of a '+' for
> > >     categories including packages that have duplicates installed?
> > >     that would make kportagemaster a nice graphical alternative to
> > >     pkg-clean.
> >
> > I don't see any possibility to change the [+], butwill try to do
> > something similar.
>
>   great!  maybe some colors on the [+] indicating status for that
>   category / ebuild might work.  red for "none merged", green for "one
>   merged" and yellow for "several merged".

Yellow is already used as "injected".
If you want, you can see how I the cvs-version looks:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@foo-bar.dyndns.org/cvsroot login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@foo-bar.dyndns.org/cvsroot co kportagemaster

>   I've been using kportagemaster for a while now and I really enjoy
>   the "surfing" feeling of looking through the ebuilds.
>
> > > anyhow, in case you're in doubt it's all very nice work!
> >
> > thanks.
>
>   it's nice to come back to the Gentoo community after a while and
>   find that things are getting even nicer.  now, if someone has some
>   free time to sell me so I could get back into portage.  :/

-- 
Greets,

Sebastian Kratzert