Res: KPackageKit

[Lukas Appelhans]

Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 15:32:54 schrieb dantti85-dev at yahoo.com.br:
> >Hey guys!
> >Well where do u want to move it to at the end? extragear or kdeutils or
> > ...? At the moment Shaman is idling, sadly, since drf__ and me don't have
> > much time. I will definitely go back working on it when I have enough
> > time (probably inside the Hard-Feature-Freeze ;))...
>
> Hey Lukas,
> well i'm not sure where is the best place for it,
> i think it all depends on how kde will think of
> packagekit project, cause in kdeutils i think this
> will become a dependency, as KPackage depends on SMART,
> the good thing is that there is binary dependency
> since it works through dbus.
Yeah, it's not a Compile-Dependency so should make no problems. Probably you 
can do some Error-Screen if the DBus-Inteface is not available.
> BUT i'm no expert in  choosing any of those places,
> i'd just like to get it in, so i could finally create
> that thing in kickoff, which imho happens to create
> a dependency since context menu are hard coded afaik.
Yeah, but can probably do the context-menu only if some dbus-interface is 
available or sth like that ;)
>
> Btw, i still think shaman should use qpackagekit
> to support packagekit, the work is already done.
> in that way i think you'd also be ready sooner.
> (of course i don't know if the missing things
> are those regarding that plugin you told me..)
Yop, I will try to do something like that soon, just want to complete the core 
and scripting stuff first ;)

Lukas
>
> Regards,
> Daniel.
>
>
>
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans at gmx.de>
> Para: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 17 de Outubro de 2008 7:06:47
> Assunto: Re: KPackageKit
>
> Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 11:38:18 schrieb Adrien BUSTANY:
> > Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
> > > A Dijous 16 Octubre 2008, vàreu escriure:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I've just commited KPackageKit to kde/playground,
> > >> and Aaron Seigo told me that the soft feature freeze is
> > >> today, and if i don't get in KPackagekit would be out of
> > >> kde 4.2, well i'd like to know what do i have to do
> > >> to get it in.
> > >> KPackageKit is already quite stable, has just a few
> > >> minor bugs, and it lacks only a few features from the
> > >> gnome one, but these features can be easily created till
> > >> 16th nov the hard feature freeze. (it's only a few
> > >> new methods of installing mime types and codecs..)
> > >>
> > >> Also i have the idea of a little "hack" into kickoff
> > >> to permit an option to right click on items and
> > >> "Uninstall" it.
> > >>
> > >> So should i ask for moving it to kde review?
> > >> as i said the program already works, has one known
> > >> bug that only needs an event loop to fix it, and
> > >> those two features..
> > >
> > > I'm worried by how it could hurt playground/sysadmin/shaman afair it's
> > > a similar tool to kpackagekit and choosing one over the other as
> > > default "might" hurt the community.
> > >
> > > Albert
> >
> > Hi Albert
> > I don't know shaman very well, but I think they address different needs
> >
> > : PackageKit is a completely working piece of software, used by many
> >
> > distributions. KPackageKit allows KDE user to avoid using the gnome
> > interface, and keep the same tool (ie. less work for the distro
> > maintainers). I don't think it's real competition to shaman, and even if
> > it was, competition can be a good thing for both projects. Vim doesn't
> > hurt emacs, and Firefox doesn't hurt Konqueror...
>
> Hey guys!
> Well where do u want to move it to at the end? extragear or kdeutils or
> ...? At the moment Shaman is idling, sadly, since drf__ and me don't have
> much time. I will definitely go back working on it when I have enough time
> (probably inside the Hard-Feature-Freeze ;))...
>
> Lukas
>
> > Cheers
> > Adrien
> >
> > >> Comments,
> > >> Daniel.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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