Project maintainer is changing!

[Anders F Björklund]

Christian Metzen wrote:

> Second, congratulations to Anders, i really hope he could push  
> development
> again, i really hope to see smart growing in the community. And  
> perhaps
> this will bring us some really needed features in the near future  
> like q
> qt4 gui ( what would really be great), or somehow a more exposed  
> api that
> makes it possible or better easier for external developers to perhaps
> develop something like new guis or interfaces for smart

Thank you! An update to the interface is coming, including a qt port...
Besides for the UI toolkits used, GTK+ versus Qt, there are *no* major
differences between the graphic interfaces.  The Qt has "qt" and "qt4":
They look the same, though: http://www.algonet.se/~afb/smart/qt4.html

In the current design there is both a shared interface (Interface) as
well as two (separate) implementations each for InteractiveInterface.
As seen with the PackageKit backend, there's a few things missing from
the external API that are actually required. One example is exceptions.


However, this is going to take some time - and each change done to the
main "gtk" interface and the internal API would also need to be echoed.

So it's going to follow the upcoming Enterprise Linux/Long Term Support
releases, and preferably be done in LaunchPad as bugs and milestones.

--anders