From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.66.186.172 with SMTP id fl12mr2507618pac.10.1431052970478; Thu, 07 May 2015 19:42:50 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.182.197.225 with SMTP id ix1ls320919obc.53.gmail; Thu, 07 May 2015 19:42:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.50.136 with SMTP id c8mr14360obo.10.1431052970295; Thu, 07 May 2015 19:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 19:42:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Justin moore To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <53c6c5a4-5a56-4421-b37c-5faf21eaef98@googlegroups.com> References: <53c6c5a4-5a56-4421-b37c-5faf21eaef98@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Void Updater conceptual GUI design MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_868_1813442862.1431052969902" ------=_Part_868_1813442862.1431052969902 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_869_1446263410.1431052969902" ------=_Part_869_1446263410.1431052969902 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > ------=_Part_869_1446263410.1431052969902 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable




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 gr= aphical 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 co= de 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 y= our feedback is valuable so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts.&n= bsp; At this point there is no git repository as there is no real work bein= g done, though when things start moving I'll create one.
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