Re: Pacman plugin

[Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>]

2010/9/17 Grigory Javadyan <grigoryj ovi com>:
>  Hi there,
> Recently I put together a Kupfer plugin for Pacman, the Archlinux package
> manager. I did it because I needed sort of a lightweight GUI for pacman :)
> The plugin is based on the already existing APT plugin and has the same
> functionality: search for package, view package info and install new
> package. A short demo video is available:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohnZsWBCKs
> The code is available in my git fork:
> http://github.com/10098/kupfer/blob/master/kupfer/plugin/pacman.py
>
> To try it out, just copy the pacman.py file into
> /usr/local/share/kupfer/kupfer/plugin and relaunch Kupfer.
>

Hi thanks,

I don't use pacman so I have not tried it.

* Do you need to mention Pacman in the titles of every action? It does
not match Kupfer's style in my opinion and I think it's better to use
fewer strings in the whole program of Kupfer in total.  Also, mind
consistency -- _("Show Pacman Package Information")  and _("Show
Package Information") should be the same, not different.

* Also, what does the regex do, does it work with unicode strings, and
does pacman emit output in the locale encoding or some other encoding
(maybe the data is always ascii so you can't find out?)?   Anyway,
using precompiled regexes as object attributes is something I consider
very unnecessary (compiling is not needed at all).

Ulrik