On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Haven't seen any of Stormix so can't comment on what they have done > although based on what I have read their GUI interface to the pkg-mgmt > system sounds nice.
Imagine dselect done in GTK. That is literally what it is. > So the question now is: if I am interested in getting involved with a > GUI to APT, how and where do I start ? I would go for gnome-apt.. > You said that Gnome-APT needs work. My preference would be to work on a > GUI that was GNOME/KDE-neutral. Granted Debian seems to prefer Gtk over > Qt which would then lead to a Gnome-compliant app!! My understanding is that it is not that gnome, I think it might have used a gnome widget or something like that - I think it is largely a GTK application. Note though that none of these widget libraries have a really scalable tree widget. Havoc wrote his own for gnome-apt but otherwise it is difficult. Using the common tree model that APT GUIs like to use can give over 100k entries in a tree at full expansion :| Deity is the legendary pre-gtk GUI that never got finished, screenshots at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/. It uses a custom widget library. Jason
