Hello fellow,

Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make portage daily 
tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you can find it on app-
portage/kportagetray at kde overlay.

It doesn't have a version relased yet, only git, because we need to implement 
some features and correct some bugs to make it good to use with KDE 4.4.

My idea was a very different approach of himerge, portato, porthole, etc.
I decided to use a very simple approach: it is a program that stays on systray 
and when you choose some action, it opens the konsole with the command you 
want using kdesu for root access. So, if you click at "upgrade world", it will 
open a konsole with kdesu and will run "emerge -vaNDu world". This is because 
the GUI may introduce an instability point at every process, since it can 
crash and make the upgrade process fail. Sabayon has a similar tool (sulfur) 
and users and devs advice to use it only for minor upgrades. So, with 
kportagetray, when konsole is opened, the process is totally detached from the 
GUI. Consequently, you can even close kportagetray without interrupting the 
selected action.

It won't substitute the entire CLI of portage, but it is aimed for people who 
is tired to type the same commands every time to upgrade the system or do 
something else.

I'm implementing some stuff to  make life easier, like a periodic upgrade 
checks with a system message on systray (like Windows update program and 
sabayon system).

When we get something good for daily use, I'll let you know.

Regards,
-- 
Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Control and Automation Engineer
Gentoo Foundation Member

Em Qua 24 Fev 2010, ās 23:40:23, BRM escreveu:
> I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having
> konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the
> emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve.
> 
> In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2 years
> out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been
> understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed
> information on a Kuroo overlay.
> 
> And I also came across Porthole; however, all versions are marked
> Unstable/Testing (~) at the moment.
> 
> Can anyone give some advice on these or others?
> 
> 
> Ben