On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:40 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Benjamin > Klüglein<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > as this is my first mail here I have to 'do' a statement first: Do > > absolutely rocks!!! It really works like a charm and boosts my productivity! > > Thanks a lot!! :-) > > > > A use case which I'm often facing is, that I quickly want to check the > > package archive for existing packages and install what I find. Right now I > > open a terminal and search via "apt-cache search foo" look for what fits and > > then install it. > > > > Is there a way to do this directly with Do? I know the AptURL Install > > plugin, but it implies that I know the exact name of the package. While > > sitting on my couch I came up with the idea that it would be cool to be able > > to do something like the following: > > Summon Do => type 'search package' or something significant shorter :-) => > > type a search term => tab => a list of packages found by apt-cache gets > > displayed, select one and press return and the package then gets installed > > by the AptURL install plugin. > > Would it be better that I try to extend the AptURL plugin or to write a > > complete new? > > > > This definitely sounds like a cool and useful idea; I also use that > workflow frequently. AptURL might not be a good name for the plugin if > it also used apt-cache search. Is there any precedent for plugins > talking to each other or passing items to another plugin? I think a > separate plug-in could be the most coherent since it is reasonable > that you would only want to search packages but not install them. > The current way that plugins would do this would be the Summon => "audio player" => "search package" => enter, and the "search packages" plugin would re-summon with a text-item (see how plugins like TinyURL & Pastebin do it").
Obviously here we'd be wanting to return a list of text-items; I presume this would work, but I've never used a plugin that did it. This might be one of the nice places to use PackageKit, if you're feeling like making the plugin a little less Debian-centric :)
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