From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5434 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 13:46:29 -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 30605 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 13:46:28 -0000 From: Svyatogor Reply-To: svyatogor@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:50:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> In-Reply-To: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306221650.36443.svyatogor@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: 3f5d6e6f-757d-47f6-8050-1a061365b889 X-Archives-Hash: 04030a12b59cd4e99cea908f948d09c4 I am very extremely interested in taking part in a project like that. Howev= er=20 I would like to make a suggestion on it: from what I understood from your=20 previous posts you are using Python + Dialog, which basically means the=20 console interface for the tool. While this has an undisputable advnatage th= at=20 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 o= nes=20 who are just trying Linux for the first time. Most people are used to WIMPY= =20 interface and feel uncomfortable when they have o do anything in console. My suggestion is to maintain in parlel with your tool another program,=20 providing the same functonality but build using one of the GUI toolkits, sa= y=20 GTK or Qt. Cause I have some experience with Qt programming I could mainati= n=20 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 Sergey Kuleshov Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list