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I am very extremely interested in taking part in a project like that. However |
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I would like to make a suggestion on it: from what I understood from your |
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previous posts you are using Python + Dialog, which basically means the |
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console interface for the tool. While this has an undisputable advnatage that |
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we're 100% sure that everyone can run it we have one problem with it: |
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Such a tool will not be very friendly to beginner users, espesially those ones |
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who are just trying Linux for the first time. Most people are used to WIMPY |
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interface and feel uncomfortable when they have o do anything in console. |
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My suggestion is to maintain in parlel with your tool another program, |
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providing the same functonality but build using one of the GUI toolkits, say |
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GTK or Qt. Cause I have some experience with Qt programming I could mainatin |
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that part. |
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Conserning repository, I guess this fits well as a Gentoo hosted project. A? |
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On Sunday 22 June 2003 13:34, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> A few days, we started to talk about a front end to portage. I received |
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> some answers (Michael Kohl,Cabec2,etc.). |
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> If someone is interrested, please feel free to join (just tell us HERE - |
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> not my personnal email). |
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> Now we have to define fonctionnalities of this new utility. I propose a |
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> basic select/install/deinstall utility for the first release. |
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> - select a category in the list (dialog menu) |
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> - select a package in selected category (with a flag for installed |
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> packages -> dialog checked box). |
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> Moreover, we need a common repository to start the project. Is there a |
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> place on gentoo cvs ? It would be weird to start this project on sf... |
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> Waiting 4 u ! |
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> -- |
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> Gravis |
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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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