Re: [Synaptic-devel] KDE Frontend

[Sviatoslav Sviridov]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:44:14 +0200
Michael Vogt <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:33:44AM -0300, Henrique Pinto wrote:
> > > > I really miss a KDE frontend for synaptic, since the GTK version won't
> > > > obbey my settings for having menubars on top of screen. Before I start
> > > > writing one: is there anyone working on that? Is that wanted?
> > >
> > > Personnally I would certainly use a KDE frontend!
> > >
> > > But I just hope that this frontend will not add too much burden on the
> > > developpers, since it would require updating the KDE frontend each time
> > > the Glade UI is updated...
> > 
> > I have never built synaptic from sources, but I think there is an option
> > to build it using WINGS instead of GTK. If that is possible, that's also
> > possible with KDE.
> 
> There is a seperation between the ui-independend part of synaptic and
> the ui-part. We have right now:
> common/ - all classes that are not gui
> gtk/    - the gtk gui
> wings/  - the wings gui (not maintained any more)
> 
> so adding a qt (or kde) interface is not a big deal.
>  
> > I can mantain the KDE interface myself, so the main developers won't have
> > to care about it. Right now I'm reading the code, and I don't think it
> > will be difficult to port it. If there's no objection I'll start the port
> > soon, and once it is ported I'll take responsibility for updating it
> > according to the GTK version, if the port is accepted as part of the
> > source tree.
> 
> Just go ahead :) Feel free to send patches to me or the list once you
> have a working version. I don't know a lot about Qt development, but
> may I suggest to use something like qt-designer to make the gui? 
> 
> I think this can also have the benefit to check how good the common/
> classes really are. All of the recent development was against the gtk
> version. This could have blurred the line between common/ and gtk/
> (e.g. adding feature to the gtk classes that really should be in
> common/). If you discover stuff like that, tell us about it, so we can
> improve the code :)
> 
> The same goes for the interfaces in common/. Some of them are not
> optimal and we could use this new frontend to check and improve them. 

Isn't it a time for creating shared library libsynaptic? :)
if there will be more than one choice of UI, than it will be useful for
packaging synaptic.

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