Re: New Extension: UpdateIndicator

[Matthias Bady <aegirxx googlemail com>]

I like this idea. Please feel free to take the code and send me an
appropriate patch. 

Btw, maybe it's a good idea if a designer could create some mockups of
how such a package manager extension should look.

Bye, 

Matt

Am Montag, den 01.08.2011, 07:22 +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines:
> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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