Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

[Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas]

1) You can easily verify the valid of my e-mail looking my signature and/or 
searching me at freenode.

2) I'll repeat: this is a development version that I have started to code on 
Saturday, so it WILL have bugs and problems, but, like every other open source 
application, I need community help to improve it. To be more short: if you 
don't stay comfortable to install and test this software, just don't install 
or test this software. Many others might want to help the development.

-- 
Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Control and Automation Engineer
Gentoo Foundation Member

Em Quinta-feira 07 Janeiro 2010, às 22:40:04, Mark Knecht escreveu:
> I have no technical opinion about this app but I will say that:
>
> 1) It showed up in my GMail spam folder which is uncommon for me on
> this list, and...
>
> 2) The idea of end-users installing ebuilds themselves from an unknown
> individual delivered through an email list is about as insane as it
> could be. Just what I need is an untested ebuild that I install and
> build myself stealing everything on my system.
>
> As a user and someone who cares about Gentoo I'd like to see ALL
> ebuilds banned from this list. Only takes one bad seed and one
> not-very knowledgeable user like me to give the distro a black eye it
> doesn't deserve.
>
> Yeah, I'm paranoid...
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
>
> <ronisbr@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hello fellows,
> >
> > I already sent this e-mail to Dev ML but I decided to sent it also to
> > user ML to get more feedbacks.
> >
> > I started to code a new application to make some daily tasks easier with
> > portage. It is called KPortageTray.
> >
> > It is coded with PyKDE, so, unfortunately (or fortunately :D) you will
> > need PyKDE and KDE to install it.
> > I'm not sure if I make something that will need portage 2.2, if anyone
> > can tell me I'll appreciate.
> >
> > By now, I just implemented some very common tasks like:
> >
> > - Sync portage tree;
> > - Upgrade world set;
> > - Check if there are upgrade available;
> >        * I'll make something to schedule it in future versions.
> > - Upgrade portage version;
> > - Run etc-update, revdep-rebuild or execute dep-clean at the system.
> >
> > I used a very simple approach: for every actions that the user must see
> > the output, a script execute a konsole with kdesu. With this way, isn't
> > necessary to run the application as root which, in my opinion, is better.
> >
> > This application can save some typing with daily tasks, but it will never
> > substitute CLI, since some complicate things is very hard to handle. For
> > example, if there are some Block, KPortageTray warning the user, show the
> > output from emerge and let the user resolve it. But, since it is very
> > uncommon to have a Block, this software can really save some time.
> >
> > I make some tests but it is at the beginning of development, so I'm
> > asking for help do add new features / give ideas / report bugs. If the
> > community like it, maybe I'll open a git repository somewhere.
> >
> > I took three screenshots:
> >
> > http://yfrog.com/7akportagetray01p
> > http://yfrog.com/11kportagetray02p
> > http://yfrog.com/b6kportagetray03p
> >
> > And I'm attaching tarball and ebuild (80KiB ~) and I would appreciate if
> > someone test it and give me a feedback :)
> >
> > My future plans is to make possible to use just PyQT instead PyKDE or
> > make a version using PyGTK.
> >
> > But, remember, I have started the development on Saturday, so you
> > probably will found bugs and problems.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
> > Control and Automation Engineer
> > Gentoo Foundation Member
>