Kapti, an experimentation on package installation/removal UI

[Tres Finocchiaro]

> Package manager are just that.  Maybe you should give your mom an
Application manager.

She uses Ubuntu.  Ubuntu's software center is fairly sufficient for her. :)


> Why is she even be doing sys admin in the first place when all she wanted
is to listen to music. :)

I wouldn't consider installing software "Sys Admin", especially if that
software is already packaged to work on her computer, and comes from a
trusted source.  I would simply call that "using her computer". :)

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ike Sumera <ike.sumera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package manager are just that.  Maybe you should give your mom an
> Application manager.  Why is she even be doing sys admin in the first place
> when all she wanted is to listen to music. :)
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <fatbuttlarry at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Aurelien, I visited your page and wanted to offer some questions/feedback:
>>
>>    - If you have a back and forward button, why not simply use a web
>>    browser?
>>    - What does this application do that apt-url<http://www.apturl.net/index.php/package/search/?q=firefox&commit=Go&version=Intrepid>doesn't already do?
>>    - I frequently use the 10.04 Ubuntu package manager and find it very
>>    useful 90% of the time (the interface is notoriously clunky, but it's icons,
>>    thumbnails, descriptions, visual feedback are pretty solid).  Is there an
>>    initiative to leverage similar behavior?
>>    - When will a package manager start "graying-out" debug tools and
>>    library dependencies so people like my mother aren't bombarded with
>>    "amarok-dbg", "kamefu-data" when she just wants "amarok"?
>>
>> I like the idea and I'd like to see more, but at the end of the day I only
>> need one package manager, and in kde, it's konsole.
>>
>> -Tres
>>
>> 2010/6/1 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since I have lots of free time :), I played this weekend with an idea of
>>> mine: a simple tool to install/remove packages.
>>>
>>> The tool is named Kapti, this wiki page will let you learn more about it
>>> and even install it:
>>>
>>> http://gitorious.org/kapti/pages/Home
>>>
>>> What makes it a bit different than other tools is that it's a web-like
>>> UI: you click links to install/remove packages or view the detailed
>>> information of a package.
>>>
>>> This is quite handy because for example the detailed information
>>> presents the suggests/recommends list as links, so you can easily learn
>>> more about a suggested package, click its "Install" link, then click the
>>> "Back" button to return to the previous package you were reading about.
>>>
>>> I do not intend to develop this as a competitor to KPackageKit and I
>>> already talked with Daniel Nicoletti, the KPackageKit maintainer (who is
>>> CC to this mail), about this. I see Kapti as an experiment on the UI,
>>> something which maybe could be integrated in KPackageKit later (but
>>> there is nothing precise right now).
>>>
>>> I am interested in your feedback, especially regarding the fact that it
>>> behaves a bit like a web browser.
>>>
>>> Aurélien
>>>
>>> DISCLAIMER: I created Kapti in my (ever shrinking) free time, Canonical
>>> is not involved in it.
>>>
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