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

[Guillaume Girard]

Hi,

I have some ideas for a new synaptic gui.
Would you mind having a look at some .glade file ?

Regards

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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