Okay, after my last outburst I've talked in depth with Jorge on irc (from Ubuntu) about my situation and described to him what happened. He's reassured me that mistakes were made, and that he's now there to stop stuff like this from happening again. This is good. Ted Gould has just started in the Ubuntu … Continue reading Ubuntu and GNOME Power Manager
In packagekit, there are two modes for removing a package, force-true and force-false. If force is false, then the package will only be removed if no other packages depend on it. If force is true, then it and any packages that depend on it are also removed. With this power allows us to do cool … Continue reading Removing software; blowing your feet off
I want to use the GNOME foot, the KDE cog and the XFCE cross logos for the respective desktop group icons in gnome-packagekit. Copyright issues? Trademarks? Am I allowed to ship these icons in the tarball? The licence of gnome-packagekit is GPLv2+ if that helps. Advice appreciated.
James Bowes has been rocking on PackageKit recently. This is some text client code he is working on right now: PercentageUpdate NoPercentageUpdates Quoting James, “welcome to the future of user interfaces…”
PackageKit now locks the org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement interface on HAL when a backend task is marked as non-interruptable. This basically means that if you start a system upgrade and then click hibernate then it will allow it during the download phase but deny it during the actual install phase. This also works with multiuser fast-user-switch environments, where … Continue reading org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement and the user
Do any mandriva developers read p.g.o? Does anyone want to write a urpmi backend for PackageKit? Join the mailing list and start asking questions and we'll do our best to help you. Thanks.
I didn't like writing this UI, but to get PackageKit into a couple of distros we need to be able to do a GPG handshake when we install a new repo. I'm questioning whether this is indeed a security measure, but for now I'll run with it. GPG Check UI The following UI will be … Continue reading Showing the GPG key
I would love to see a QT-based package manager and update icon using the PackageKit API. I'm quite prepared to make changes the the libpackagekit source if this is needed, I know I use a lot of gobject'isms. I can provide a private git server and add as much documentation as you guys need, I … Continue reading QT-based package manager
A pretty-useless debugging client for PackageKit I wrote in a few minutes: Useful to PackageKit Hackers… It basically allows you to see what the currently running backend can do, and what is left to implement. Some of the backends can't do all the actions, so this tool can show you what they should be able … Continue reading
When pk-application gets packages that meet a search criteria it just prints the package name, version, summary and if it's installed or not. This is really bad from a UI point of view. What I want is: __________[ ] packagename-version[ ICON ] Translated short description[________] [more] Unfortunately, neither the translated short description nor the icon … Continue reading Application database icons