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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...
From:       BRM <bm_witness () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2010-02-25 14:32:35
Message-ID: 251836.58672.qm () web65408 ! mail ! ac4 ! yahoo ! com
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----- Original Message ----

> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> > BRM wrote:
> > > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> > > preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having
> > > konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in
> > > the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to
> > > resolve.
> > In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge.log
> > It tells you what is being installed at present
> > Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> Set the terminal up so that it displays the running command in the titlebar.

I do have that setup - and it _use_ to work just fine. However, now it just shows \
"python 2.6". So I'm looking for a better solution.

The 'genlop' tool that Dale suggested looks like a great find; so looks like I have \
something even if I don't find a GUI.

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas 
<ronisbr@gmail.com>
> Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make 
portage daily 
> tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you 
can find it on app-
> portage/kportagetray at kde overlay.
<snip>

While I like the idea of having something in the system-tray, I'm not a fan of you \
solution. I'd much rather have a nice GUI interface wrapped around it all.

BTW, you have the same problem if the SSH connection or KConsole is closed during an \
emerge. You can get around that using 'screen' kind of, but needless to say - just \
using KConsole doesn't solve the problem.

Also, with KDE/Qt you can wrap processes (QProcess, not sure what the KDE wrapper is) \
and get their I/O, so you could probably try wrapping a detached process of the \
desired command and then just pull its I/O. I would be surprised if the other GUIs \
were not either doing that or directly working with emerge/portage via an API (if \
there is one aside from the command-line).

Ben


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