[packagekit] A new update viewer
Adrien Bustany
madcat at mymadcat.com
Fri Feb 27 09:29:54 PST 2009
Very nice, just a small remark : to my eyes, the "system restart
required" pixmap is a bit misleading, one could think it would prevent
the update from being installed...
Cheers
Adrien
Richard Hughes a écrit :
> A few keen eyed hackers will have noticed a load of new code being
> pushed into gnome-packagekit git.
>
> I've been working on a new update viewer, as the old one had lots of
> issues:
>
> * Lots of sync calls that make cancelling a pain in the ass
> * No size information
> * Lots of windows that pop up
> * Three pane design that was difficult to maintain, and explain
>
> I've got some prototype code in a local branch here, and the results are
> something like this:
>
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/gpk-update-viewer2.ogv
>
> Ignore how some sub-bars repeat (backend bug), and also that you need to
> do the repo-sig and the eula (this is for testing). I've used the OSX
> updater as inspiration. Comments appreciated.
>
> Nothing in git yet, as I wanted some feedback,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard.
>
>
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