On 10 February 2014 00:24, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a bug report asking for Qt by the way, with no action for ~2 > years. I would be interested (and indeed, that's one of the reasons > that brought me to aptitude), but then there are so many other things > to do... > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526812 >
This is something worth investigating, at least with a quick prototype or two. It should help identify what are the current options, and what issues and changes may be necessary in the rest of aptitude to support this. Based on reading some of the existing Qt interface progress reports, it appears that the original author had to reimplement some other aptitude functionality to better support his choice of widgets. It is not fresh in my mind, but I believe there was also duplicating PkgIterators or parts of them (names, etc.) for the data object behind the display widget. Investigating new interfaces is highly valuable, IMO, as part of the overall effort to restructure and cleanup the internals. Currently the direction is based only on my own experience working with the curses (cwidget) and cmdline modules, and does not include any understanding of issues associated with toolkits such as Qt or GTK+, should there be any. I am vaguely aware that these have tree or list display objects that rely on underlying data objects, and that aptitudes internal types may not be suitable for efficiently providing the data. Any information gained from such an exercise is highly valued. Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
