[gentoo-dev] New Project Proposal: User Tools

[gentoo-dev] New Project Proposal: User Tools

[Ian Leitch]

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Hi everyone,

Yesterday I began work on a GTK version of the tool guitooEtcetera[1]
which is in early alpha stages. gEtcetera[2] (my GTK version) and
guitooEtcetera are GUI tools for updating CONFIG_PROTECTed directories.
A simplified etc-update is near the top of many users wish list, hence
the creation of these tools. 

I propose a project that aims to turn aspects of Gentoos operation into
GUI applications.
Including, but not limited to:
etc-update 
portage (A complete and finished tool this time)
rc

The project team would aim to provide GTK and Qt based versions of each
tool. 

Having users use tools developed by us(Gentoo), we will be able to apply
a certain level of QA and consistency.

So please, bring on the feedback!


[1]: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=103540
[2]: http://emu.gentoo.org/~port001/Images/gEtcetera.png

Regards,
Ian. 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Project Proposal: User Tools

[Marius Mauch]

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On 11/20/03  Ian Leitch wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Yesterday I began work on a GTK version of the tool guitooEtcetera[1]
> which is in early alpha stages. gEtcetera[2] (my GTK version) and
> guitooEtcetera are GUI tools for updating CONFIG_PROTECTed
> directories. A simplified etc-update is near the top of many users
> wish list, hence the creation of these tools. 
> 
> I propose a project that aims to turn aspects of Gentoos operation
> into GUI applications.
> Including, but not limited to:
> etc-update 
> portage (A complete and finished tool this time)
> rc
>
> The project team would aim to provide GTK and Qt based versions of
> each tool. 
> 
> Having users use tools developed by us(Gentoo), we will be able to
> apply a certain level of QA and consistency.

IMO it's part of the tools-portage (for the portage interface) and
desktop-research (for the GUI integration) subprojects.

Marius

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