Re: GSoC Idea

["D.H. Bahr" <dbahr uci cu>]

Besides, I seem to recall there is already an extension on
extensions.gnome.org
(https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/95/appsearch/) that does
something similar .. 

Best regards
El Tue, 06-03-2012 a las 13:05 -0500, Jasper St. Pierre escribió: 
> 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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> 
> 
> 

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                                                          Ing. D.H. Bahr
                                Líder de Desarrollo para Nova Escritorio
                                        CESOL (Centro de Software Libre)
                              UCI (Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas)
                                               Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba



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