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giovanni

Developer

From: Livorno, Italy

Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 68

[NEW] gtkpacman

I have created a PKGBUILD for a my friend who is writing gtkpacman, a frontend written in python, using pygtk, to pacman, the archlinux package manager.

PKGBUILD

# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania@gmail.com>
pkgname=gtkpacman
_svnrev=`LC_ALL=C svn export --force http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk $pkgname | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d "." -f 1`
pkgver=svn$_svnrev
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="A frontend written in python, using pygtk, to pacman, the archlinux package manager"
url="https://gna.org/projects/gtkpacman"
license=""
depends=('pygtk')
makedepends=('subversion')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=()
md5sums=()

build() {
  if [ ! -d $startdir/src/trunk ]; then
    echo "Fetching sources..."
    svn checkout http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk
  else
    echo "Updating sources..."
    svn update http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk
  fi
  cd $startdir/src/trunk
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
  rm -rf ../../$pkgname
}

Any suggestions?

Look at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkpacman/gtkpacman/

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iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: [NEW] gtkpacman

what makes this any different than the many other pygtk pacman frontends floating around the forum?

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [NEW] gtkpacman

what makes this any different than the many other pygtk pacman frontends floating around the forum?

I havnt seen any.

T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: [NEW] gtkpacman

I've tried out the new release in aur. It's pretty nice.
My only suggestions would be to create radio buttons instead of the drop down "pacman" menu and a quick search bar to select packages.
I don't understand "upgrade packages". When its selected, it brings me to a file selection window.

arooaroo

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 1,268

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Re: [NEW] gtkpacman

It's a nice start. Good to see that it didn't take very long from when you annouced your intentions to start gtkpacman to actually getting a release out.

My main concern is that it doesn't follow any usability conventions we are used to.

It's not obvious what the panels on the right-hand side are until you click on a package, and even then the dependencies are not labeled until you select one.  I'd personally add a few labels for clarity in the interface.

I don't think - although this could just be me - that the obvious way to add packages is to either select the item from the menu bar, or to right click them and use the context menu.

It would be nice to have a search facility to search for all packages that contain a specified word or phrase (to emulate pacman -Ss ...

Finally, the drop down list offers repositories that I haven't specified in my pacman.conf. I personally think it better to honour what the user has specified.

Keep up the good work. I know that many Archers would like a gtk front-end.

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