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looks good , its support overlays (layman) ?? |
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2010/1/5 Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas <ronisbr@×××××.com>: |
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> Hello fellows, |
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> I started to code a new application to make some daily tasks easier with |
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> portage. It is called KPortageTray. |
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> It is coded with PyKDE, so, unfortunately (or fortunately :D) you will need |
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> PyKDE and KDE to install it. |
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> I'm not sure if I make something that will need portage 2.2, if anyone can |
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> tell me I'll appreciate. |
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> |
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> By now, I just implemented some very common tasks like: |
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> - Sync portage tree; |
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> - Upgrade world set; |
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> - Check if there are upgrade available; |
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> * I'll make something to schedule it in future versions. |
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> - Upgrade portage version; |
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> - Run etc-update, revdep-rebuild or execute dep-clean at the system. |
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> |
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> I used a very simple approach: for every actions that the user must see the |
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> output, a script execute a konsole with kdesu. With this way, isn't necessary |
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> to run the application as root which, in my opinion, is better. |
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> |
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> This application can save some typing with daily tasks, but it will never |
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> substitute CLI, since some complicate things is very hard to handle. For |
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> example, if there are some Block, KPortageTray warning the user, show the |
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> output from emerge and let the user resolve it. But, since it is very uncommon |
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> to have a Block, this software can really save some time. |
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> I make some tests but it is at the beginning of development, so I'm asking for |
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> help do add new features / give ideas / report bugs. If the community like it, |
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> maybe I'll open a git repository somewhere. |
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> I took three screenshots: |
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> http://yfrog.com/7akportagetray01p |
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> http://yfrog.com/11kportagetray02p |
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> http://yfrog.com/b6kportagetray03p |
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> |
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> And I'm attaching tarball and ebuild (80KiB ~) and I would appreciate if |
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> someone test it and give me a feedback :) |
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> My future plans is to make possible to use just PyQT instead PyKDE or make a |
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> version using PyGTK. |
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> Regards, |
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> -- |
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> Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas |
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> Control and Automation Engineer |
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> Gentoo Foundation Member |
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> |
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