I was also thinking of doing something like this, however I was thinking of also including uninstalled software in to the applications menu, so you could install applications directly from the shell. The behaviour would be similar to the Ubuntu Software Center. Chris On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 23:31 +0200, Matthias Bady wrote: > Yes, calling aptitude in the background and scraping the output was what > i first did. But a comment on omgubuntu hinted me at packagekit and now > i've done a complete rewrite. > > Bye, > > > Matt > > Am Sonntag, den 31.07.2011, 10:52 +1000 schrieb Tim Cuthbertson: > > Ace, thanks! > > I saw this on omgubuntu a few days back, and thought "that really > > should use packagekit" which it looks like you've now done. > > > > (unless I'm confused, but it looked like it had some apt-specific > > stuff when I glanced at the code originally) > > > > Cheers :) > > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Matthias Bady <aegirxx googlemail com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > i've created an extension that tells the user the amount of available > > > package updates and provides quick access to update/upgrade actions. A > > > screenshot is located here: > > > http://imageshack.us/f/9/updateindicator.png/ > > > > > > The extension makes use of the PackageKit DBus Interface > > > (http://packagekit.org/) and therefore it should work with all common > > > package managing systems like apt, yum, etc. For a full list of > > > supported systems have a look here: > > > http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html > > > > > > The code is located at Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/updateindicator) > > > and there is a ppa available for Ubuntu 11.04 users > > > (https://launchpad.net/~aegirxx-googlemail/+archive/gnome-shell-extensions). > > > > > > Bye, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > > gnome-shell-list gnome org > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
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