Re: New Extension: UpdateIndicator

[Matthias Bady <aegirxx googlemail com>]

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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