[packagekit] New GUI

[Anders F Björklund]

Jean Hubbard wrote:

> 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
> [...]
> 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.
> [...]
> Yes it has the feel and look of Synaptic giving advanced users that  
> extra functionality. ^

So the new GUI is the same as the old GUI, but instead
of 5 different windows there are now 5 different tabs ?

Doesn't seem to make all that big a difference really,
more like web browsing in new windows or in new tabs...

For instance KPackageKit does have the "Packages Sources"
and "Software Management" and "Update Viewer" in 1 window ?

Integrating the "Advanced" is more problematic, since it's
outside of PackageKit and varies greatly between backends.

--anders