[gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[Craig Callender]

I'm currently working on a Gnome Frontend for Portage (currently named
GnoPortage *grin*).  Working on it is still at the primitive level, I'm
designing the interface right now and how it will get package info, etc...

In order to minimize re-coding (I have all summer to do this, then I will
be back in school, so I would prefer to only work on bugs and not
features) I was curious where I could get some info about Portage 2.  I
figure we will be there soon, considering we are at 1.9.x something right
now.  Also, if there is a Gnome developer out there I would love to get
their feedback on my GUI design to see if they like/dis-like it, or have
suggestions.  Thanks.

-- Craig Callender

        In the beginning there was data.  The data was without form and
null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
IBM was moving over the face of the market.  And DEC said, "Let there
be registers"; and there were registers.  And DEC saw that they
carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions.  DEC called
the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code.  And there was
evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
                -- Rico Tudor, "The Story of Creation or, The Myth of Urk"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[foser]

Craig Callender wrote:
> I'm currently working on a Gnome Frontend for Portage (currently named
> GnoPortage *grin*).  Working on it is still at the primitive level, I'm
> designing the interface right now and how it will get package info, etc...
> 
> In order to minimize re-coding (I have all summer to do this, then I will
> be back in school, so I would prefer to only work on bugs and not
> features) I was curious where I could get some info about Portage 2.  I
> figure we will be there soon, considering we are at 1.9.x something right
> now.  Also, if there is a Gnome developer out there I would love to get
> their feedback on my GUI design to see if they like/dis-like it, or have
> suggestions.  Thanks.
> 

Hm reminds me of what i did a while ago, i made a basic portage tree 
browser in Python. I put the latest incarnation here 
http://sesmar.eu.org/genview/ if you want to have a look at it. Needs 
libglade, PyGTK and gnome-python. It's basic, but i use it a lot for 
just checking the tree and searching it. This particular version i never 
put online btw, the others never had any extra root options. But those 
aren't very usuable anyway.

Anyway, what's my point here ? ;) I wouldn't mind having a look at your 
GUI and maybe even help out a bit in coding it.

- fos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[Grant Goodyear]

> Hm reminds me of what i did a while ago, i made a basic portage tree 
> browser in Python. I put the latest incarnation here 
> http://sesmar.eu.org/genview/ if you want to have a look at it. Needs 
> libglade, PyGTK and gnome-python. It's basic, but i use it a lot for 
> just checking the tree and searching it. This particular version i never 
> put online btw, the others never had any extra root options. But those 
> aren't very usuable anyway.

Why not make an ebuild for genview and submit it to bugs.gentoo.org?

-g2boojum-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[foser]

Grant Goodyear wrote:
 >
> Why not make an ebuild for genview and submit it to bugs.gentoo.org?
> 

I might do that: clean it up, ditch the root stuff (needs much more 
attention to get that right) and just present it as a simple browser. 
And then try to help out with Craig's project.

- fos

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome GUI

[foser]

Craig Callender wrote:
> I'm writing the whole thing in C, and it is my first GnomeUI app, so I'm
> doing a lot of learning on it as I go along.  Plus I am not a very good
> "leader", but I would not mind getting some help.  I'll take a look at
> your design and make a sketch of what I think it will look like and let
> you comment/make changes.  If you're willing to continue helping in C/C++?
> 

Sure, fine with me. Maybe we should setup a project page somewhere, you 
can always mail me directly to not clutter up this list ;)

- fos