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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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> 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

:-)  :-)