Re: [Synaptic-devel] Improved apt frontend - package manager (all apt developers shoud colaborate !!!)

[Michael Vogt]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:52:04PM +0100, Guillaume Girard wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
 
> I have some ideas for a new synaptic gui.
> Would you mind having a look at some .glade file ?

Sure, I would love to. There is a new gui in the works and the current
cvs version is already pretty stable (with the new gui). You may have
a look :) Just send me your comments along with your glade file.
 
thanks,
 Michael

> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:17:56 +0200, Mantas Kriauèiûnas wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >In previos bugreport you asked me:
> >>In what respect to you think synaptic is harder for beginners
> >>(compared to
> >>red-carpet or stormpkg)? I'm working in on a new gui for synaptic
> >>right now, so suggestions are welcome. Some screenshots are
> >>available
> >>at:
> >>http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/newgui/synaptic2-1.jpeg
> >>http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/newgui/synaptic2-2.jpeg
> >
> >Stormpkg is easier to use, because there are easy accesible
> >possibilities to
> >filter packages by decriptions.
> >Beginners don't know packages names and if beginner want to install
> >some
> >program (for example video player) he writes "video player" into
> >package
> >description filter. Synaptic should have easy acessible possibility
> >to
> >filter or search packages by decriptions like stormpkg.
> >Also with stormpkg is easier to install recommended or suggested
> >packages
> >and also easily sort packages by name/install status/size/etc by
> >clicking on
> >headers of package tree table.
> >
> >Red-carpet package manager is very user friendly and also has
> >wonderfull
> >feature - with red-carpet you can install local packages (and
> >dependencies
> >are automatically installed from internet). In command line you
> >can do this with these commands (if deb_package has pre-depens
> >installed):
> >
> >dpkg -i deb_package
> >apt-get -f install
> >
> >more about this you can read here:
> >
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47379
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88616
> >
> >Maybe  somebody could implement this feature in synaptic and after
> >testing
> >this feature could be implemented in apt too ?
> >
> >Mantas Kriauciunas <address@hidden>
> >
> >P.S. Why debian has more than 5 partially working apt frontends:
> >stormpkg,
> >synaptic, deity and deity-gtk (very good, but pretty unstable apt
> >frontend,
> >currently with no maintainer :( - see http://bugs.debian.org/deity),
> >captain, gnome-apt, aptitude and no one stable and full-featured ?
> >Maybe
> >it's time to colaborate ? Synaptic, deity-gtk and gnome-apt are
> >based on
> >gtk, maybe synaptic and gnome-apt developers can colaborate and
> >improve one
> >program ?

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