<div class="im">> Package manager are just that. Maybe you should
give your mom an
Application manager. <br><br></div>She uses Ubuntu. Ubuntu's software
center is fairly sufficient for her. :)<div class="im"><br><br>> Why
is she even be doing sys admin in the first place when all she
wanted is to listen to music. :)<br><br></div>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". :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ike Sumera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ike.sumera@gmail.com">ike.sumera@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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. :)<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fatbuttlarry@gmail.com" target="_blank">fatbuttlarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Aurelien, I visited your page and wanted to offer some questions/feedback:<br><ul><li>If you have a back and forward button, why not simply use a web browser?</li>
<li>What does this application do that <a href="http://www.apturl.net/index.php/package/search/?q=firefox&commit=Go&version=Intrepid" target="_blank">apt-url</a> doesn't already do?</li>
<li>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?</li>
<li>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"?<br>
</li></ul>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.<br><br>-Tres<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/1 Aurélien Gâteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aurelien.gateau@canonical.com" target="_blank">aurelien.gateau@canonical.com</a>></span><div>
<div></div><div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
Since I have lots of free time :), I played this weekend with an idea of<br>
mine: a simple tool to install/remove packages.<br>
<br>
The tool is named Kapti, this wiki page will let you learn more about it<br>
and even install it:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://gitorious.org/kapti/pages/Home" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/kapti/pages/Home</a><br>
<br>
What makes it a bit different than other tools is that it's a web-like<br>
UI: you click links to install/remove packages or view the detailed<br>
information of a package.<br>
<br>
This is quite handy because for example the detailed information<br>
presents the suggests/recommends list as links, so you can easily learn<br>
more about a suggested package, click its "Install" link, then click the<br>
"Back" button to return to the previous package you were reading about.<br>
<br>
I do not intend to develop this as a competitor to KPackageKit and I<br>
already talked with Daniel Nicoletti, the KPackageKit maintainer (who is<br>
CC to this mail), about this. I see Kapti as an experiment on the UI,<br>
something which maybe could be integrated in KPackageKit later (but<br>
there is nothing precise right now).<br>
<br>
I am interested in your feedback, especially regarding the fact that it<br>
behaves a bit like a web browser.<br>
<br>
Aurélien<br>
<br>
DISCLAIMER: I created Kapti in my (ever shrinking) free time, Canonical<br>
is not involved in it.<br>
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