[Usability]Suggestions on a gnome-based package manager for Gentoo

[Joseph Monti <joe tgpr org>]

I've been discussing with members from the Gentoo Linux community about
a Gnome-based interface to their command line package management
utility.

It's basically an interface to the entire list of packages packaged for
the Gentoo Ebuild system.

We've been discussing ideas in a thread at http://forums.gentoo.org and
it has gotten quite long (179 posts as of now)

Here's the URL to the thread:

	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18655

If you zip along to page 7 you can see where we really get going on
interface ideas.

I've been pretty adamant about focusing on usability, as the current
state of the GUI could use help. That is why I turn to this list, the
experts on usability.


Here's a link to my latest proposed idea (I'm "count" in the forums):

	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=247153#247153

In the post there's a link to an image I created to show what I'm
talking about.


I would be grateful to anyone who could offer any suggestions; either
replying in email or joining discussion in the forum thread.

Thanks!
- Joe


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