Re: [gentoo-dev] volonteers for a gentoo admin tool (portage frontend)

[Michael Kohl]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:50:35 +0000
Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o> wrote:

> I am very extremely interested in taking part in a project like that.
> However I would like to make a suggestion on it: from what I
> understood from your previous posts you are using Python + Dialog,
> which basically means the console interface for the tool.

Yeah, being able to use a tool like this on machines without X or
remotely via SSH etc. is IMHO a must.

> While this has an undisputable advnatage that  we're 100% sure that
> everyone can run it we have one problem with it: Such a tool will not
> be very friendly to beginner users, espesially those ones who are just
> trying Linux for the first time. Most people are used to WIMPY
> interface and feel uncomfortable when they have o do anything in
> console.

In my original proposal I stated the several that a GUI agnostic
approach would be nice. Read: core functionality, plus several frontends
like console (dialog or ncurses), GTK and QT.

> My suggestion is to maintain in parlel with your tool another program,
> providing the same functonality but build using one of the GUI
> toolkits, say GTK or Qt. Cause I have some experience with Qt
> programming I could mainatin that part.

And I'd be very interested in participating in the GTK version. I've
never done any useful work for GTK so far, but startet playing around
with the Python GNOME bindings, Glade and stuff like that. Working
together with someone who already has knowledge on this subject
would be a great oppurtunity for me to learn while doing something
useful for the Gentoo community (hopefully).

3 more days until my exams are finished, after that I have more time on
my hands.

Michael

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