[kubuntu-devel] Kubuntu dapper-flight-6+ feedback

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 20:24, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 22:42 schrieb Christoph Wiesen:
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > > graphical deb installer
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > > .deb files are linked to ark at the moment. Ark gives an error
> > > > message when launched with a deb file for me and isn't all that
> > > > useful anyway. Maybe a kdialog could pop up instead that has three
> > > > buttons: "Install Package" "Uninstall Package" "Show Packakge info".
> > > > Those could then call the Kubuntu Package Menu scripts.
> > >
> > > You can right click on .deb files in Konqueror but otherwise you'll
> > > need to wait for a KDE port of gdebi which could well happer for
> > > dapper+1.
> >
> > A true application like gdebi is the better solution of course. My idea
> > was that until then some magic could be done with "kdialog" to include
> > what the "Kubuntu Package Menu" can do - but inside a dialog box, that
> > would open when you left click a file. It would have to interact with
> > "Kubuntu Package Menu" though - I'll fool around a bit with kdialog later
> > and maybe come to the conclusion that it can't be done... was just an
> > idea.
>
> Tested a bit with kdialog and I think it can't be done with just that. It
> would still require a small programm, so that doesn't seem to be an option
> for dapper. A port of gdebi would be cool for edgy though.
Well ... gdebi seems to be a pygtk app. It also has a console version. 

So, I'm guessing that the backend functions are well seperated from the 
frontend. If this is the case, writing a PyKDE/PyQt frontend shouldn't be so 
hard.

regards,
Rajeev J Sebastian