From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28168 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Jun 2003 14:15:11 -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 9304 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2003 14:15:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:13:49 +0800 From: Michael Kohl To: svyatogor@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030622221349.09d6275c.citizen428@cargal.org> In-Reply-To: <200306221650.36443.svyatogor@gentoo.org> References: <1056288854.2350.23.camel@biproc> <200306221650.36443.svyatogor@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Gentoo Linux Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.w_?A8ObJCV+aNf" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend) X-Archives-Salt: 2ac8de7c-0809-40e4-a376-65f83a2ea87e X-Archives-Hash: ad1d6d0ac9f62c2bbddbf68f7c56bbd7 --=.w_?A8ObJCV+aNf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:50:35 +0000 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. Yeah, being able to use a tool like this on machines without X or remotely via SSH etc. is IMHO a must. > 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. In my original proposal I stated the several that a GUI agnostic approach would be nice. Read: core functionality, plus several frontends like console (dialog or ncurses), GTK and QT. > 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. And I'd be very interested in participating in the GTK version. I've never done any useful work for GTK so far, but startet playing around with the Python GNOME bindings, Glade and stuff like that. Working together with someone who already has knowledge on this subject would be a great oppurtunity for me to learn while doing something useful for the Gentoo community (hopefully). 3 more days until my exams are finished, after that I have more time on my hands. Michael -- www.cargal.org GnuPG-key-ID: 0x90CA09E3 Jabber-ID: citizen428 [at] cargal [dot] org Registered Linux User #278726 --=.w_?A8ObJCV+aNf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9bmg3i2RopDKCeMRAozpAJ9kbDWkWP1WHcu7zNHgahYI9NBTZwCdFwN0 1Au9sVkrkRWykTUh2XW0BVc= =1Pb/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.w_?A8ObJCV+aNf--