[packagekit] New GUI

[Andres Vargas - zodman]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Jean Hubbard <jean_p57 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey Guys,
>
> So ive been a member of the Ubuntu Forums for some time where i first
> learned about Packagekit and loved it and was really looking forward to it
> being adopted by Ubuntu as the default Package Manager. So i am rather
> ticked that it has been dropped after being told 'next release' a few times
> and being marked as in development for so long all for something they
> decided to go at alone namely being AppCenter.
>
> I have also fairly recently been a member of the Foresight, Fedora and
> Mandriva forums to see how they feel about PK in their camp.
>
> The Foresight community is well, a rather quiet one so no feedback from
> there but PK does work well in Foresight.
>

Im the Developer of conary backend on Packagekit. Where you  submit the
feedback ?

i think the packagekit mail-list its the correct way for get info/feedback.


>
> Ubuntu and Mandriva have very strong support for PK but also a lot that
> appose it.
>
> Fedora seems pretty happy with the way it seems to be shaping up.
>
> Now 90% of the people from all forums that do appose or are not to happy
> with PK seem to have issues with the GUI and the functionality there of.
>
> One thing i and ive noticed a few other people who support PK do like about
> the AppCenter thing though is the idea of a single GUI for Software Sources,
> Add/Remove, Update Manager etc etc...
>
> Foresight and Ubuntu have an Add/Remove entry in the Applications menu.
> Add/Remove, Software Sources and Update System in System->Admin and Software
> Updates in System ->Prefs. and i have not used Fedora in a couple of years
> but im guessing its pretty much the same.
>
>
> What i propose is just one entry, a single entry under System->Admin called
> Packagekit or something like that. You click on that and this pops up: v
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PackagekitDefault.jpg
>
> A GUI with 3 tabs, Add/Remove, Software Updates and Update System.
>
> If you click on System in the top left of the GUI you have all the options
> thats usually there plus 2 Additional entries which are CHECK BOXES, namely
> enable Software Sources and enable Advanced.
>
> If you CHECK: enable Software Sources, then you will see this: v
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PKDefaultSoftwareSources.jpg
>
> If you CHECK: enable Advanced, then you will see something like this: v
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PKDefaultAdvanced.jpg
>
> Yes it has the feel and look of Synaptic giving advanced users that extra
> functionality. ^
>
>
> If you have Software Sources and Advanced CHECKED, then you GUI will look
> as follows with the selected Tabs:
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PackagekitAdd-Remove.jpg
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PKSoftwareUpdates.jpg
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PKUpdateSystem.jpg
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PackagekitAdvanced.jpg
>
>
> http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/courtney2721/?action=view&current=PKSoftwareSources.jpg
>
>
> Perhaps to enable Software Sources and Advanced in the System menu at the
> top left of the GUI, password authentification could be required??
>
> While this is for the Gnome Desktop, maybe something like this could be
> done for the KDE and Xfce Desktops too making it easier to
> maintain/implement.
>
> If you guys would like further feedback on this i could start a Poll in all
> the Forums and see how that goes and then lastly, unfortunately i have no
> experience coding and therefore would be not able to contribute to this in
> that way but would certainly be onboard to testing it.
>
> Anyways, hope you guys like it and keep up the good work.
>
> Jean
>
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