From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30231 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 13:55:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2012 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 13:55:27 -0000 From: hanez Organization: http://hanez.org/ To: svyatogor@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:54:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <200306221650.36443.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200306221650.36443.svyatogor@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306221555.00774.mailman@hanez.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: cb52f64d-af21-4993-8d93-763294f9c171 X-Archives-Hash: 94bdf1c4ae7289c9e91a562b3dfe8c65 hi, there are tools like this allready: kportage -> qt based portagemaster -> java based a conole based portage frontend would be nice... kind regards hanez On Sunday 22 June 2003 18:50, Svyatogor wrote: > I am very extremely interested in taking part in a project like that. > However I would like to make a suggestion on it: from what I understood > from your previous posts you are using Python + Dialog, which basically > means the console interface for the tool. While this has an undisputable > advnatage that we're 100% sure that everyone can run it we have one probl= em > with it: Such a tool will not be very friendly to beginner users, > espesially those ones who are just trying Linux for the first time. Most > people are used to WIMPY interface and feel uncomfortable when they have o > do anything in console. > > My suggestion is to maintain in parlel with your tool another program, > providing the same functonality but build using one of the GUI toolkits, > say GTK or Qt. Cause I have some experience with Qt programming I could > mainatin that part. > > Conserning repository, I guess this fits well as a Gentoo hosted project. > A? > > On Sunday 22 June 2003 13:34, Philippe Lafoucri=E8re wrote: > > Hi all > > > > A few days, we started to talk about a front end to portage. I received > > some answers (Michael Kohl,Cabec2,etc.). > > If someone is interrested, please feel free to join (just tell us HERE - > > not my personnal email). > > > > Now we have to define fonctionnalities of this new utility. I propose a > > basic select/install/deinstall utility for the first release. > > > > - select a category in the list (dialog menu) > > - select a package in selected category (with a flag for installed > > packages -> dialog checked box). > > > > Moreover, we need a common repository to start the project. Is there a > > place on gentoo cvs ? It would be weird to start this project on sf... > > > > Waiting 4 u ! > > > > -- > > Gravis =2D-=20 http://www.againsttcpa.com/ - The war for digital freedom began in 2002 Key fingerprint =3D DCD0 990F 6BD8 6E5F 439D 4257 D5ED FB77 F58D 4435 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=3Dyou%40hanez.org&op=3Dindex begin .signature question: is it a feature to execute code in emails? i don't think so! end -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list