On Thursday 24 July 2003 1:48 am, Olivier Blin wrote: > Hi > > I've started a GNOME applet that notifies when a urpmi media has been > updated. For now, it only supports ftp media whitout proxy. > I may write a KDE version soon. > I've written a minimalist webpage here : > http://olivierblin.free.fr/mdk-check-update/index.html > The package will be soon (this morning ?) in contrib.
I've just started one for KDE as well :) See a screenshot of the work so far here: http://www.davidsansome.com/mutray.png This will work as an icon in the KDE system tray, and will display a little tooltip-like window next to the icon when updates are available (like Noatun, or Kopete do). The user can then click the icon to bring up a box like in the screenshot. It only checks the update source, and does it without going through URPMI - ie. it gets the mirrorslist from the mandrake site, and downloads the descriptions file from a mirror (chosen at random, but can be overridden by the user). To download the updates, it simply launches MandrakeUpdate. I'll post the source here as soon as it's complete. David Sansome
