Recently, Daniel and Adrien have been rocking with KPackageKit and QPackageKit. The library is coming on nicely, and the tools are starting to look very KDE like. They could do with a hand, so if you want to get involved, jump on the mailing list and introduce yourself to those two dudes. See here for … Continue reading KDE love!
Anyone know how I could hook PackageKit into this UI so that it handles some recognised formats? For instance, in this case, we could prompt to install Inkscape to view the file. But I don’t want to do lots of waiting if PackageKit can’t find anything that matches the mimetype. Ideas welcome, as I’m really … Continue reading No application for this file type…
gpk-log UI This UI is really bad. Please suggest improvements. Thanks!
Quite a common use case for Linux is where PC's are installed on computers without internet access, or where internet access is very expensive. So, enter PackageKit. You insert a CDROM or USB pendrive with updates on. The following UI appears: You click “yes” and then the update icon appears as if you were online. … Continue reading ServicePack : User Interface
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE: please stop posting useless random shit on mailing lists. I've warned you before.
I think I've included the right markup, but the current web documentation looks like rubbish. I really can't convince gtk-doc to recognize that the signals are signals, or to pick up the markup and descriptions that I've so lovingly explained. Any help really appreciated. EDIT: Dan Winship to the rescue: it's because your object struct … Continue reading gtk-doc legend needed
So another year, another great FOSDEM. On Sunday I presented an introduction to PackageKit. The slides are now online for any that missed it. For those of you I met, it was great to see you. I was really worried I didn't get a chance to say hi to some key people, so if I … Continue reading FOSDEM 2008
Today I resigned from my graduate hardware engineer position at BAE Systems. In a little over one months time I will be starting at Red Hat UK, with Jonathan Blandford as my boss. I'll primarily be working on laptop support issues, but with a bit of time spent on PackageKit and other cool stuff. This … Continue reading Big changes
This morning, PackageKit checked for updates automatically, and then began to download and install them like I had configured. Half way through, I get this dialog: Panic ensues. I close down all my half-finished code changes, save my drafts in evolution and work out how much stuff I have open on other workspaces that needs … Continue reading Panic! 13 seconds to shutdown!
Hmm. PackageKit development has hit another snag. When we use a spawned backend that needs cancelling we just send the new process a SIGQUIT and then SIGKILL after a small delay. Other backends are compiled and thus use threads. It appears that g_thread_cancel doesn't exist in GLIB. I've found one hacky implimentation here, but that … Continue reading g_thread_cancel