KPackageKit

[Lukas Appelhans]

Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 19:00:36 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Friday 17 October 2008, Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> > Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 17:18:44 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > > On Thursday 16 October 2008, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > 	* shaman could well become the replacement for kpackage, but needs
> > > more backends; it didn't work on the opensuse laptop i'm writing this
> > > on, for instance, and all i got on it was a dialog saying "Pick a
> > > backend:" with no options listed and a blank mainwindow
> >
> > You need to run "kbuildsycoca4" since everything is Plugin-based and
> > indeed it does not work on OpenSuse yet :( We are both working on an Alpm
> > (Archlinux)- Plugin and on a Package-Plugin now :)
>
> when i built it originally, i didn't have the necessary package kit stuff
> on disk. i now do and i do get the packagekit plugin.
>
> so .. some input/thoughts/ideas:
>
> * when there is only one backend available, don't pester the user to choose
> it. just choose it. it's odd to say "hey, pick one of the following things
> i can do" and then only given one option ;) the computer is not *that*
> dumb, right? ;)
Definitely! It's just a workaround for the moment, till I have the REAL stuff 
in the ConfigDialog :)
>
> * both shaman and kpackagekit offer a search line with some pull down menus
> to limit the search and a text edit. it would be very smart if the ordering
> of items in those search lines was standardized between the two apps.
> obviously there will be different contents, but looking at them together
> they don't look at all like they come from the same project (KDE) but like
> two completely independent efforts. which, of course, they are. =) but we
> can make them look like they actually belong to the same universe, and a
> really simple way is to work on consistency in very visible things like the
> search bar
Yeah that'd be nice :)
>
> * the packagekit backend seems to connect/disconnect to the system bus too
> often and engages in blocking calls which shouldn't be blocking but use the
> callback DBUS mechanisms. probably just the youthful state of this plugin,
> i guess .. right now it makes shaman's UI fail on my system (timeouts and
> whatnot)
+1 I guess I will rewrite the Plugin using libqpackagekit ;)
>
> * as with kpackagekit, could use with some UI cleanups and what not
>
> generally, though, i like where this app is heading! nice work, guys ...
> looking forward to seeing it continue on to greatness
=)

Lukas