Hi,
> I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas > from USERS, that's why I'm posting here. as I'm a Desktop user, I'll speak up ;-) . > I've never found a program that would allow me to browse > portage categories, then packages, showing in one window description, > version, etc, etc. > > Thus, I'm working on one now, but I want to develop something Great to hear! > that will run in console and X, too, like suse's yast. > > So, I would like to know: > > 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? Both would be great. > 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask > packages, install/remove, emerge command generator [much like > nmapfe], etc) There already are some projects which try to do frontends for configuring a Gentoo system. If you write a portage frontend then yes, I'd enjoy to have all settings right at my fingertips. Otherwise I'd better stay with 4 shells open ;-) . > If you have any idea regarding development (because of the > both console and X-compatible script/program), please let me know. If > not, I may end up writing an API, and two different programs. I'm not sure what you plan exactly, but it sounds as it was reasonable to keep the tool as desktop independent as possible. What about using Qt4? You can use it for shell only programming as well as for GUI programming (introduced in Qt4), it is independent from KDE or Gnome, and it allows you to divide the data from the frontend. Finally, it offers a concept similar to "model view controller" and a thread save signal/slot concept. Just my two cents, ce -- [email protected] mailing list
