Re: [Synaptic-devel] KDE Frontend

[Michael Vogt]

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. 

bye,
 Michael