From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkfII-0000yp-5X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:06:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69C21E0B58 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from n13.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n13.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [74.6.228.93]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D44F7E0D81 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [74.6.228.94] by n13.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Feb 2010 14:32:35 -0000 Received: from [76.13.10.160] by t1.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Feb 2010 14:32:35 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp101.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Feb 2010 14:32:35 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 477246.11666.bm@omp101.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 59493 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Feb 2010 14:32:35 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1267108355; bh=w4Fg5gFg8PeE+wb0DtBAuXmZYJYcMMZkfeaGtC2rRLc=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Gou0qfSPA9sT5y507v27lbIAfLTYaxalLtZTfSaDOMuFPNx385mYQY2aqhn+UYL84jV/ADy2lOoyD9W9OeRypdq3Z9TbkjZi0aaS0lA2XS95Swl0njkDrvKHvpmPfO6Loeefqdk7l4z6MEYQeyntBnIB+hBJkMd5E4HTDav9uFA= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=BorYSQ/hhoNIpPhLGKBoNaeGqdzjKe8vvAT5s5LpiAPsK6jJ2czQVZJrtynV9raSDHHtWpPu197EDfoo0FIiHS4b2TVSbHk6jfvq2qL/7BX1Cbi1g/b1Fw8oFjum/Wk47Ppc3U/vD8w2ZVQBr8sgWYWi70GZU6U2Nw0AuavUpss=; Message-ID: <251836.58672.qm@web65408.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: ID.0dyEVM1k6jCuWLfLTm1pAl_dsXZF58s9CE533ktqHkJMsV_MbXfirDkkWrTeZM49Zezmd6bjNdDrDcrcLGz0aGgh5DJe66xsnpWE30GMkFmoNJ82tuwZrIURunnuE_Z14pLoGjjP.s0Xvh72iNmo.JcFzWEfK5yW_CDMdd8MKS_1CsEghuMpGzNRYo51XlHG47mH2ghbXZwbgWwuwQZycoCFDoyX2Y63n0txGMp07mCd.q8dZLkTcsRIjHDfy_21k9Hrf271ZdZEWFN9q_r3_87wezAEcFYFtPyJRJ3fxWK.bbrF6Dj8uv.nnfXbfS4O15V0pdeSO.wnUmRz9CCEFNQYrb22F1fjOsH2bEYA7aXUKea0xonI- Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65408.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:35 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/300.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 References: <215169.33643.qm@web65402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <4B85EAFE.1040303@gmail.com> <201002250919.47287.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:35 -0800 (PST) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces... To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201002250919.47287.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 5d7ef21b-a5af-48ee-82ed-2579bf597ed5 X-Archives-Hash: 55eb5c0e958f616a225dc0c09baeff6e ----- Original Message ---- > From: 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 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 > 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. 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