Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend)

[Svyatogor <svyatogor@gentoo.org>]

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 problem 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 Lafoucrière 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

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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
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