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TechDragon

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Registered: 2008-03-10

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what if I want a gui pacman?

what would be my best choice and does it make a difference what gui I use in reference to my window manager

Gnome?
KDE?
Enlightenment?
Other?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

See a list of graphical frontends here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=14849

Not sure how up to date some of these are so you need to check yourself.

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

kde4 has shaman and arxin coming up

kdemod forum for more info.

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TechDragon

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Registered: 2008-03-10

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

yes the link provided is very out of date, I was hoping to hear from some current users using a gui pacman. 

Also, I am not using kde4 at this time as it is supposed to be quite buggy.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

kde4 has shaman and arxin coming up

kdemod forum for more info.

I am pleasantly surprised to see the progress of these two projects. I think it will be quite a boost for beginners to install and build their Arch system from the ground up, and eventually adding a complete DE to their liking, including these tools, if desired. Since the Arch Way focuses on one's learning the internals, and a user invariably becomes familiar with their system conf upon installation, apps like these will be a welcome addition for many users. And, it's a community effort, as it should be.
TechDragon, these projects appear to be what you're looking for, but they seem to be based on the qt toolkit. They will most likely bring in those dependencies if installed, then. I would keep an eye on them, as they seem to be in the alpha stages of development (but moving pretty quickly).

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techkey

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From: Bangkok

Registered: 2008-07-05

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

I'm using Shaman on Xfce4, works great, light and fast

Install (both Shaman and Xfce4) was easy, fast and with no problems...:D

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

It doesnt bother me, but why are the same(?) people developing two frontends based on qt4?

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INCSlayer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

because they can?

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Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

It doesnt bother me, but why are the same(?) people developing two frontends based on qt4?

Do you mean Arxin and Shaman?

The 1st is no pacman frontend.. its a GUI for editing mandatory system config files like rc.conf

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dolby

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

Ah, thats why its desciption in AUR seemed confusing for a pacman frontend. Thanks for clearing this out

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

Fauno has a fine Gui for pacman called pactrac.  Has a listing giving a synopsis of the packages, permits removal and downloads selectively.

Check it out with a flash USB download of FaunOS.  Can't lose.......................

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Inxsible

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Re: what if I want a gui pacman?

I am pretty happy with CLI pacman.

But I can see that it would help a lot of new comers to be able to easily manage packages a la Synaptic or Adept in Debian based distros.

But then we would lose our "bragging rights" of being snotty Arch users HAHA

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