On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas < roni...@gmail.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 :) > This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right now, but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the future easily, and get the updates easily? Also, have you thought about (optional) support for/integration with eix? I would love to have this just popup a notification that I can click which will show me the (important) info - aka the database diff - from the latest eix-syncs... -James > Regards, > -- > Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas > Control and Automation Engineer > Gentoo Foundation Member >
