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#1 2009-03-10 21:01:37
- cdahmedeh
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Looking for GUI for Pacman
Hello,
I'm going to install Arch Linux next week. I am Ubuntu user right now, and have gotten used to the Synaptic Package Manager. Right now, I am fiddling with Arch Linux in a virtual machine. I have found that a program called Shaman exists, but the problem is that it QT based and I am using GNOME. I don't really like the look and feel of KDE application. So can anyone recommend a good front end that works similar to Synaptic and that uses GTK instead of QT. I need to be pretty recent and work well with pacman without any problems.
Thanks
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#2 2009-03-10 21:05:14
- alienman
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Re: Looking for GUI for Pacman
Many options for you my friend:
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#3 2009-03-10 21:08:53
- cdahmedeh
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Re: Looking for GUI for Pacman
gtkPacman seems quite interesting. Even though its about a year old, does it still work properly with pacman ?
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#4 2009-03-10 23:22:20
- alienman
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Re: Looking for GUI for Pacman
I don't really know, I just use Command Line (CLI) so I can't help you a lot, I just pointed you to some options taht you can try and then maybe you can share your experience with us and later some other guys could choose one based on your opinion o try themselves and choose one 
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#5 2009-03-11 00:20:17
- Misery
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Re: Looking for GUI for Pacman
I don't really like the look and feel of KDE application.
If you use qt4.5 and select "GTK+" theme in qtconfig you won't see a (big) difference now. Even the file dialog looks like gtk.
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/09 … art-of-qt/
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