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From: Justin moore <silve...@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Void Updater conceptual GUI design
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53c6c5a4-5a56-4421-b37c-5faf21eaef98@googlegroups.com> (raw)


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Since community is the base of most Linux distributions, I thought I'd 
share some ideas a friend and I have. The main idea is a graphical updater, 
the details however are still up for debate. In the end we want to create 
some sort of daemon that runs in the system tray (like you've probably seen 
in other distributions) and notifies the user when updates for local 
packages are available. Our language of choice is Python and our GUI 
toolkit is Qt5, which we both have limited to no experience with. Last 
night I opened up Qt5 Designer for the first time and started playing with 
different tools and came up with something very simple, yet effective (or 
at least I think so).

I ended up converting the UI file to python code which I have attached to 
this post. If anyone is remotely interested in the idea, let me know if 
you'd possibly be willing to help out. Of course your feedback is valuable 
so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts.  At this point there is no 
git repository as there is no real work being done, though when things 
start moving I'll create one. 

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08  2:36 UTC|newest]

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2015-05-08  2:36 Justin moore [this message]
2015-05-08  2:42 ` Justin moore

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