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Hello fellows, |
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I already sent this e-mail to Dev ML but I decided to sent it also to user ML |
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to get more feedbacks. |
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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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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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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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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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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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But, remember, I have started the development on Saturday, so you probably |
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will found bugs and problems. |
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Regards, |
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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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