Re: GSoC Idea

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Is package management such a core functionality that it would be best
suited in the overview and not a separate application? According to
yum statistics, I've only installed 5 packages in the past three
weeks.

That said, the overview is going to change dramatically soon. Maybe
you should help Florian and Jakub with that? See
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=1181 for details.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Chris Baines <cbaines8 gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a student currently at university in the UK. I am hoping to
> participate in the Google Summer of Code this year, and have a
> preliminary idea I would like to run by you.
>
> The first is to add package management functionalities to the shell
> interface (through an extension?), so that you would be able to
> install and remove programs from the overview. I don't think this has
> been done, the closest project I found was this one
> https://code.launchpad.net/updateindicator . I talked to the developer
> a while ago, and he seems to like the idea
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-August/msg00001.html
> , so building the functionality from this extension might be a good
> place to start. I also have some ideas about how this would work, but
> I will keep it short for now. Is this something that sounds good?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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  Jasper