Hi, While writing doc on pkg for the Sysadmin manual, I created a bash wrapper to cache 'pkg list -a' to speed things up. It grew. I eventually added Zenity to get output on GTK windows with scroolbars. It was a good way to really get to know pkg.
This Easter while cleaning up I realised that it might be possible to to modify and write a Zenity GUI for pkg. This I did. The fine tuning was the difficult part though; and not too much fun. Results are here: https://github.com/mebenn/zpkg.git It is very simple and very alpha. It is the wrong way to go for a pkg GUI (GTK with Python is very powerful: the old Solaris GUI I liked); so I don't think it worth devoting too much time to developing it. I wouldn't suggest making a pkg package for it either. However, you can list, install, update and what not using it; which doesn't render it entirely useless. Maybe someone will find it useful. Some things can be easily added, other thinks not so easy; and not really worth the time. The app is in bash (most certainly the wrong language for a GUI) and is horribly menu orientated. I tried to minimise the amount of menus and I optimised some menus away: it is not clean. I've tested what I can, but expect a lot of things not to work. And there are better things around than Zenity; but I never intended to spend as much time as I did on it. You can run it from a terminal or copy zpkg.desktop to /usr/share/applications/, place the binary somewhere in PATH and run it in Mate from system->administration. Help via zpkg -h. Any questions, comments, require help, ... don't hesitate to ask. Cheers Benn oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
