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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] To PackageKit or not to PackageKit
From:       Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse ! de>
Date:       2012-11-01 12:56:27
Message-ID: 20121101125627.GD19427 () suse ! de
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 01:44:19PM +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@gmail.com> [2012-11-01 11:18]:
> > make the zypp backend build and work again. If not, do we have alternatives 
> > that we can offer to the users as a small systray utility that notifies them 
> > when updates are available ? 
> 
> It wouldn't tkae too much effort to swap out the PackageKit
> backend in pk-update-icon with a zypper-based one, in fact I do
> already have a parser for zyppers XML output from some
> experiments last year. It uses GTK+ but the UI consists only of a
> tray icon and notification bubble which would open "yast2
> online_update" when activated so it should not look alien in KDE.
> So if there's a rough consensus that we want to go with a minimal
> notifier and update via YaST's online_update module I could put
> something together.

We actually had a zypper based KDE applet some years ago.

But I still think we should work with upstream PackageKit
to get bugs fixed and our support in.

Ciao, Marcus
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