Re: Gnome 2.2 suggestions

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:50, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> 	Secondly, a good package installer for Gnome.  GnoRPM is alright for
> some users but for newbies it would be good to have an easy to use installer
> for the nervy first time user.  This is also a problem with KDE that they
> haven't addressed.  This could be part of the commercial toolkit that I
> mentioned before.  Something that addresses the dependency issue as well as
> the usability issue would be a real bonus for users.  It would be good to
> have a Microsoft style (shudder) installer that allows programs to be
> installed easily and painlessly.
> 

Hi Craig:

I've thought about this in the past, and from a purely ui perspective I
think that integrating package management into nautilus would be an
ideal solution. However as others have mentioned this is really a distro
oriented issue. At the gnome level though we can help accomodate this by
providing the neccessary hooks to allow distributors to do this easily,
including item specific context menus in nautilus (when i context click
an rpm there should be an option to install it in the menu) and
providing the mechanism for an rpm database view (this can be done
through vfs) from which rpms can be installed and removed etc.[1]

dave


1.I apologize for being rpm centric here, its the only package format i'm really familiar with)