smart Digest, Vol 21, Issue 3

[Grant McWilliams]

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> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:21:42 +0200
> From: Anders F Bj?rklund <afb at algonet.se>
> Subject: Xfce Panel Plugin for Smart
> To: smart at labix.org
> Message-ID: <31992dabfae9b75be7f7aa647d13a4c1 at algonet.se>
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> Hi,
> I've done a panel plugin for Xfce 4.4 and Smart 0.50.
> (recently renamed xfce4-smartpm-plugin, with the "pm")
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> It checks for package upgrades and launches the GUI,
> it can also look for channel updates on user demand.
> (the check uses "smart upgrade --dump" and the update
> uses either of "smart-update" or "sudo smart update")
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> When there are upgrades available it will launch the
> update interface when clicked, otherwise the regular.
> It has been tested to work with Fedora and Xubuntu,
> their latest versions have Xfce 4.4 (fc7 and feisty).
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> Note that the plugin does not check the network for
> updates, this is up to the admin (I use a cron job)
> It merely shows the current upgrade status in the
> panel, and offers a (gksudo) launcher for the GUI.
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> Having a little bit of trouble with SVN, but there is some code at:
> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-smartpm-plugin
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> I wrote it because I was missing the Pirut/Pup/Puplet icon in Fedora,
> but I don't think Xubuntu has any either ? (beyond "update-notifier")
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> Eventually I want it to use an icon more similar to what mail-watcher
> has (i.e. a nice SVG parcel), but so far it just uses the Smart icon.
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> --anders
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> Anders,
   Perfect timing! I'm using XFCE 4.4 on CentOS5 for a project and needed
that. I'm a little confused though
because you say it checks for package upgrades but does not check the
network for updates. Could you explain?

Grant
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