Re: [Synaptic-devel] KDE Frontend

[Peter Rockai (mornfall)]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 17:58, Henrique Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:04, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Did anyone hear about this new initiative; kapture?
> > It is a kde frontend to apt, but I think it is for debian only :(
> > http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/dec192003.html#Utilities
>
> It is part of the new KDE in Debian project and is being coded by Peter
> Rockai. I gave up on porting Synaptic since the code was too much tied to
> GTK libraries and the UI had some usability issues.
>
> I'll probably adapt it to Conectiva and other RPM-based distros in a near
> future, if Peter does not mind.
Peter surely wouldn't mind... However, your breakage is yours and you are 
going to fix what you have broken, right? Ok, i might fix things for you, but 
i can't promise anything. RPM support is of negligible priority for me right 
now. I want to get it working on Debian and i want it soon. When this is 
accomplished, i can look into rpm. But i, well, dislike rpm... No offense 
meant -- have your package format, but noone is going to force this on me. So 
if someone wants the support, he better implements it himself, than waiting 
for me to do it :). Henrique, you are of course welcome. I look forward to 
your contribution. Also,  Dominique Devriese offered me help, so you might 
want to contact also him.

Now, i am curious, where should we coordinate? I am CC'ing everyone who 
expressed interest. Any ideas? I think kde-debian would be appropriate (at 
least by name). I'll ask Navin what she thinks...

Cheers,
    Peter

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