hi, Le dimanche 13 août 2006 15:45, Kevin Krammer a écrit : > On Sunday 13 August 2006 00:24, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > update-notifier is a program made by the Ubuntu guys which puts a > > notification icon in the notification area and warns the user about > > updates being available, and allowing them to run update-manager (a > > simple upgrade manager tool based on Synaptic). > > I think the Kubuntu developers have something along this lines based on the > Adept package manager frontend > > > This is done in Ubuntu by communicating with GDM through a nice program > > called gdm-signal, which was built using code from gnome-panel and some > > more written by Rob Taylor, and which is distributed in Ubuntu's > > powermanagement-interface package; I included this work in > > update-notifier as a private program, for now, but maybe we should add > > it to our gdm package? Ubuntu does not seem to have provisions for KDE; > > if our KDE guys know how we'd go about doing the same for KDM, let me > > know; same goes for XFCE and other desktops which support the > > notification area protocol, and would, thus, be able to run > > update-notifier. > > Since this is an Ubuntu development, I would guess that they have their > KDE/XFCE developers already working on it. > > However, since this looks like a cross-desktop topic, a more viable > solution for them might to draft a specification on freedesktop.org so it > can be properly implemented upstream and doesn't have to be latched onto at > the packaging level.
like kevin said kubuntu use adept to achieve this: adept - package management suite for KDE adept-common - package manager for KDE -- common files adept-installer - simple user interface for application management (for KDE) adept-manager - package manager for KDE adept-notifier - system tray notifier of available system updates adept-updater - system update tool for KDE adept-notifier runs adept-updater to update the system. cheers, Fathi
