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From: Justin moore <silve...@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Void Updater conceptual GUI design
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 19:42:49 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1b2f489-d606-430b-899d-1e5ca3081825@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53c6c5a4-5a56-4421-b37c-5faf21eaef98@googlegroups.com>


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On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 9:36:09 PM UTC-5, Justin moore wrote:
>
> 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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