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@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +PKGGUI +====== + +This is a small GUI to test various approaches of categorising rpm +packages and a mockup for future user interfaces for package +installers. As long as I only stay little frustrated about the UIs of +existing package installers this is not planned to become a real +application or part of Fedora or any other distribution. + +USAGE +===== + +As this is a just a mockup implementation a lot of things are +intentionally left out. Startup may take a while as it might need to +downlaod yum repositories first. The UI is not really +intuitive. Reimplementators are encouraged to do better. + +In short: + +You can do a search in the upper left (similar to "yum search"). Under +the searhc box is a tree with different categories. After the name of +the category the number of packages is displayed: First those who are +included in the curren result and the over all number. Searches are +intered into this tree under the "Searches" entry. + +By double clicking on a category it is added to the filters and shown +above the results on the right side. Selecting a category shows the +results within this category only. Filters can be removed by clicking +on the button representing them. + +Selecting a package shows very basic information about it on the down +right. + +CATEGORIES +========== + +Searches +-------- +Each search done by the user is available as a category that can be +used for further filtering + +Repositories +------------ +... + +PackageDB Tags +-------------- +You need Seth's addon repository to make this work. It contains the +tags stored in the Fedora PackageDB. See [1] for details. + +[1] +http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/searching-package-tags-from-the-pkgdb/ + +Menu Tags +--------- +Each "application" aka *.desktop file aka "icon in the application +menu" has a number of tag which are used to sort it into the +Application menu. They have the advantage that they allow different +views (menus) on the applications. So filtering for several of them +kann be used to narrow things down. + +Applications +------------ +This is the application menu as found in Fedora with the packages +sorted in. It includes special sub meus that split things up +further. The implementation is not 100% perfect but you should bet an +idea. + +Comps groups +------------ +This implementation does not take care about mandatory, default or optional. |