synaptic with smart?

[Robert Xu]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 05:59, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> Robert Xu wrote:
>
>> Quick Question. Is it possible to modify Synaptic to use smart as a
>> backend? (or has anyone tried it?)
>
> Synaptic is in C++, and it works closely with the libapt library.
> Even the RPM port of it (http://apt-rpm.org/) is slightly broken.
> It's also closely tied to the GTK+ interface, where Smart works
> in both GTK and Qt and other interfaces. And Smart is in Python.
>
>> Because looking at the current smart-gui, I'd rather prefer Synaptic to
>> it.
>
>
> The Synaptic and Smart interfaces are very similar, which is not
> too surprising given their history, and some changes are pending
> to make them even more similar. Such as the group pane or columns,
> are there any other features from Smart missing that you require ?

I'd rather also have the Description view first, and rename the
General view to Properties and such.
This way, users can be able to see what the software is about. (Some
people don't even know it is there sometimes (like me at first))

Also, I'm looking for the ability to be able to make the buttons on
the toolbar at the top have names by default. Sometimes, people don't
know what they mean.

And finally, in the downloading and installation progress dialogs, it
could help if you could hide all the individual progress like
Synaptic.

I'll file bugs in launchpad, but I just wanted to express what I see
could help :) Smart is a great project that shouldn't die away.

>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/387289
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/493630
>
> --anders
>
>



-- 
later, Robert Xu