[gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[BRM]

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In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2 years out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed information on a Kuroo overlay.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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Zeerak Mustafa Waseem]

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:40:23PM -0800, BRM wrote:
> 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 In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2 years out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed information on a Kuroo overlay.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
> 
> 
> 

Well there's Paludis, all version are however marked ~arch at the moment.

-- 
Zeerak Waseem

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[ubiquitous1980]

BRM wrote:
> 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 In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2 years out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed information on a Kuroo overlay.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
>
>
>
>   
In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
/var/log/emerge.log

It tells you what is being installed at present

Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
/var/log/emerge-fetch.log

Good Luck :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[ubiquitous1980]

BRM wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>   
Found a portage interface, though I cannot guarantee it works or what it
does:

app-portage/himerge

Damien

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> BRM wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
> /var/log/emerge.log
>
> It tells you what is being installed at present
>
> Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
> /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
>
> Good Luck :)
>
>    

Another good tool is genlop.  Just type in genlop -c and it will tell 
you what is emerging, what number the package is and the estimated times 
as well.  What number the package is looks something like this:  
emerging #4 of 8 packages.  That tells you it is on package 4 out of 8 
that will be emerged.  The estimated time only works if the package has 
been emerged at least once before.

Sorry, it is command line.  It appears you have already discovered about 
everything else.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> BRM wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> Found a portage interface, though I cannot guarantee it works or what it
> does:
>
> app-portage/himerge
>
> Damien
>
>    

I checked out the home page and that does look interesting.  That's for 
sharing that one.  The screen shots look better than porthole.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas]

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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, às 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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Stroller]

On 25 Feb 2010, at 05:32, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote:
> ...
> 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.
>
> ...
> 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".

Is this to say the application looks rather different that the  
screenshots you posted before?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/204446

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> BRM wrote:
> > 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
> 
> In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
> /var/log/emerge.log
> 
> It tells you what is being installed at present
> 
> Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
> /var/log/emerge-fetch.log


Set the terminal up so that it displays the running command in the titlebar.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[daid kahl]

On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

I thought that in the window title bar, it will tell you something
useful about the present emerge command?

I switched from kde a little while ago, and now I mostly use frameless
terminals in xfce (it ends up looking something like xmonad).

I am pretty sure I used to have this in konsole, whether it was
default or I had to tweak some settings to get it, I dunno.  And if
konsole can't do it, something can.

(I'm not answering your exact question, I know, but if it's just an
issue to know your status on an emerge process generally, like which
package you are on and what number package it is out of the full
emerge list running, the title bar can show you that.)

Regards,
daid

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Stefano Crocco]

On Thursday 25 February 2010, BRM wrote:
> |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

You can try the plasma-emergelog plasmoid
(http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-emergelog?content=103928). 
There are ebuilds for the 0.0.1, 0.02 and development version in the kde 
overlay. This isn't a GUI interface for portage: it simply displays the last 
entries of the emerge log file (it also works with paludis and pkgcore) and is 
updated as the log file changes.

Stefano

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas]

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No, it isn't, though it is very different now, these screenshots are from a 
very old version. Now it is much more coloured and beautiful with some newer 
tasks.

The only thing that I read emerge output and show my way is the pretending 
packages that will be installed and output from eix-diff to show database 
diffs. So, you can get a systray message saying how many packages portage will 
install when you ask to check for updates. For every other command what I said 
is true, it opens a konsole with the desire action.

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

Em Qui 25 Fev 2010, às 03:35:59, Stroller escreveu:
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 05:32, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote:
> > ...
> > 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.
> > 
> > ...
> > 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".
> 
> Is this to say the application looks rather different that the
> screenshots you posted before?
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/204446
> 
> Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[BRM]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> > BRM wrote:
> > > 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 the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge.log
> > It tells you what is being installed at present
> > Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> Set the terminal up so that it displays the running command in the titlebar.

I do have that setup - and it _use_ to work just fine. However, now it just shows "python 2.6".
So I'm looking for a better solution.

The 'genlop' tool that Dale suggested looks like a great find; so looks like I have something even if I don't find a GUI.

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas 
<ronisbr@gmail.com>
> 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.
<snip>

While I like the idea of having something in the system-tray, I'm not a fan of you solution.
I'd much rather have a nice GUI interface wrapped around it all.

BTW, you have the same problem if the SSH connection or KConsole is closed during an emerge.
You can get around that using 'screen' kind of, but needless to say - just using KConsole doesn't solve the problem.

Also, with KDE/Qt you can wrap processes (QProcess, not sure what the KDE wrapper is) and get their I/O,
so you could probably try wrapping a detached process of the desired command and then just pull its I/O.
I would be surprised if the other GUIs were not either doing that or directly working with emerge/portage via an API (if there is one aside from the command-line).

Ben

[gentoo-user] Error in emerge git

[Konstantinos Bekiaris]

I am a new to Gentoo and portage. I tried to install git but i get the 
following error:

Gentoo / # emerge git

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

 *
 * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
 * The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
 * manifests and it is capable of doing an entire repository or category at
 * once.
 *
Calculating dependencies... done!


[nomerge      ] dev-util/git-1.6.4.4  USE="gtk iconv 
perl -bash-completion -cgi -curl -cvs -doc -emacs -mozsha1 
(-ppcsha1) -subversion -threads -tk -webdav -xinetd"
[nomerge      ]  dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1  USE="test -doc -examples"
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-python/numpy-1.3.0-r1  USE="test -lapack"
[ebuild  N    ]    dev-python/nose-0.11.1  USE="test -doc -examples"
[ebuild  N    ]     dev-python/twisted-8.2.0-r2  USE="crypt gtk -serial"
[ebuild  N    ]      dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1  USE="test -doc -examples"
[nomerge      ] dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3  USE="qt4 -emacs -vim-syntax"
[nomerge      ]  x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2  USE="accessibility cups dbus glib 
gtk mng qt3support tiff (-aqua) -debug -nas -nis -pch -raster -xinerama"
[nomerge      ]   x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6 [1.2.10-r12] USE="cups jpeg test 
tiff -debug -doc -jpeg2k -vim-syntax -xinerama"
[nomerge      ]    net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE="X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam 
perl png ppds python ssl 
tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" 
LINGUAS="-de -en -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW"
[ebuild  N    ]     app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3  USE="abiword cairo jpeg lcms 
png qt4 utils xpdf-headers -cjk -debug -doc -exceptions -jpeg2k"
[ebuild  N    ]      dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3  USE="qt4 -emacs -vim-syntax"
[ebuild  N    ]       x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2  USE="accessibility cups dbus 
glib gtk mng qt3support tiff 
(-aqua) -debug -nas -nis -pch -raster -xinerama"
[ebuild  N    ]        net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1  USE="X acl dbus jpeg ldap 
pam perl png ppds python ssl 
tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" 
LINGUAS="-de -en -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW"
[nomerge      ] dev-util/git-1.6.4.4  USE="gtk iconv 
perl -bash-completion -cgi -curl -cvs -doc -emacs -mozsha1 
(-ppcsha1) -subversion -threads -tk -webdav -xinetd"
[nomerge      ]  dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.6.0  USE="-debug -doc"
[nomerge      ]   dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1  USE="test -doc -examples"
[ebuild  N    ]    gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4  USE="-debug -doc"
[ebuild  NS   ]     x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6 [1.2.10-r12] USE="cups jpeg test 
tiff -debug -doc -jpeg2k -vim-syntax -xinerama"

 * Error: circular dependencies:

('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/twisted-8.2.0-r2', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/numpy-1.3.0-r1', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/nose-0.11.1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3', 'merge') (runtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/nose-0.11.1', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/twisted-8.2.0-r2', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/numpy-1.3.0-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r2', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/gtk+-2.16.6', 'merge') (buildtime)
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3', 'merge') (buildtime)

 * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
 * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.

 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.
I understand that i must put some keywords in etc/portage/package.keyword. I 
think  dev-util/git   "gtk iconv 
perl -bash-completion -cgi -curl -cvs -doc -emacs -mozsha1 
(-ppcsha1) -subversion -threads -tk -webdav -xinetd"

but i am not sure.

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in emerge git

[Xavier Parizet]

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On 02/25/2010 03:40 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote:
> I am a new to Gentoo and portage. I tried to install git but i get the
> following error:
> 
> Gentoo / # emerge git
> 
> [SNIP]
> I understand that i must put some keywords in
> etc/portage/package.keyword. I think  dev-util/git   "gtk iconv perl
> -bash-completion -cgi -curl -cvs -doc -emacs -mozsha1 (-ppcsha1)
> -subversion -threads -tk -webdav -xinetd"
> 
> but i am not sure.

1st, do not hijack other threads, please create a new email when you
write to the list instead of using "reply to" method.

2nd, if you want only bare git without fancy utilities, just do echo
"dev-util/git -gtk" >> /etc/portage/package.use; emerge dev-util/git
should work without bringing down all the gtk dependencies.

HTH.

-- 
      Xavier Parizet
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote:

> 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

Have a look in this list for messages containing the string %w. There 
were four on the first and second of the month.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM<bm_witness@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> I thought that in the window title bar, it will tell you something
> useful about the present emerge command?
>
> I switched from kde a little while ago, and now I mostly use frameless
> terminals in xfce (it ends up looking something like xmonad).
>
> I am pretty sure I used to have this in konsole, whether it was
> default or I had to tweak some settings to get it, I dunno.  And if
> konsole can't do it, something can.
>
> (I'm not answering your exact question, I know, but if it's just an
> issue to know your status on an emerge process generally, like which
> package you are on and what number package it is out of the full
> emerge list running, the title bar can show you that.)
>
> Regards,
> daid
>
>    

It used to do just what you said but it doesn't any more.  I noticed 
this a while back.  I think it was after a portage upgrade but I'm not 
sure.  I just know that the info is not like it was and is pretty much 
useless now.  We all know that portage is in python.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote:
>
>    
>> 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
>>      
> Have a look in this list for messages containing the string %w. There
> were four on the first and second of the month.
>
>    

I searched this list and didn't find anything related to this.  The last 
message containing "%w" was back on Nov last year.  Either I didn't get 
the messages or it was on another list.

Could you post the message for us?  I would like a fix for this as well.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 19:40:17 Dale wrote:

> Could you post the message for us?  I would like a fix for this as
> well.

Hmm. I can't find it now either. Anyway, this is what I did:

Right-click in the Konsole window, select Edit Current Profile, open the 
Tabs tab and add ": %w" to the string in Tab Title Format.

Now I think about it, this doesn't sound as though it will do what I 
want, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I never use tabs in 
Konsole, preferring to have several instances running so that I can see 
what they're up to.

HTH - it's worth a try I suppose.

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Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:37 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Now I think about it, this doesn't sound as though it will do what I 
> want, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I never use tabs in 
> Konsole, preferring to have several instances running so that I can see 
> what they're up to.

With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the content
of multiple tabs at once.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the
> content of multiple tabs at once.

Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful.

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Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[J. Roeleveld]

On Friday 26 February 2010 15:39:52 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the
> > content of multiple tabs at once.
> 
> Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful.
> 

In the menu:
View -< Split View

Then you can choose to split it horizontally or vertically.

To undo, close the "active view"

HTH,

Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 26 February 2010 15:08:29 J. Roeleveld wrote:

> In the menu:
> View -< Split View
> 
> Then you can choose to split it horizontally or vertically.
> 
> To undo, close the "active view"

Ah, I see. I don't usually have a visible menu so I didn't see it. 
Thanks.

I still prefer to place my three console windows where I want them, but 
it was worth having a look.

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Rgds
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Mark David Dumlao]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is one place where those quake-like terminals comes in handy. I
use tilda, for KDE there's yakuake. Basically they allow you to press
a single key and a terminal pops down from the top of the screen. I
usually have one of those running all the time: I have a tab or two
devote to emerges, another tab handling an SSH -X session to some
other computer, and maybe a tab or two devoted to some command line
tasks. Press a single key and it all goes out of sight.

You'll probably want to run the compile in one screen session, then
tail -f the emerge log in one of the tabs.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:52:15 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:

> This is one place where those quake-like terminals comes in handy. I
> use tilda, for KDE there's yakuake. Basically they allow you to press
> a single key and a terminal pops down from the top of the screen.

Yakuake is absolutely superb, it's the only terminal I use on this
netbook as it takes up no screen space.

> You'll probably want to run the compile in one screen session, then
> tail -f the emerge log in one of the tabs.

With the latest portage and --jobs set to >1, you don't even need that as
the output from emerge excludes all the compiler output so you can see
exactly what's going on at any time.


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