From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 14 16:54:30 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D1179F for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:54:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com (mail-wi0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C02F92A for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id l13so293903wie.12 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:54:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=R6XdPkEFwIqyIDxC6/wkhiXxna5DO3JNeDjwhRZ3V7E=; b=wYzDTMfhXYsegS/etFxTPegCpXyKYT9S7TibVbdDT/F6eE4g4Ch6jKG30ocEQ3EOqC YX2fCEiiQKPkqpaE542l/E7tnRrxT+ZxKCjr7PEKv1H5tkt57FoMWzLirMlkQ8C2qbwk JINaMLJ+tEqSceuQPGqKFx+uQiuXOb/UKE2aWk/9R34YPDVPA8b9x6H+C7cXQDcLKAe4 WMe/mG3cYBRrFy364xJrZPz18FETvM/vLcI6XFyuf5+YpyG3hf3FfwLCMeeby0/O3Wmx 1r5iQveZoeILPxCl0CohXHWNlA0mCjqpxKoVgDDZgddAHTHNmi99Wc0aTUFQopzqNJBn TP7g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.97.233 with SMTP id ed9mr7317850wib.32.1365958469277; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.139.72 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:54:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:54:29 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Justin Edward Muniz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:54:30 -0000 On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. >> There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It >> might be worth a look at those first. >> >> [1] ports-mgmt/kports >> [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 >> >> Yes, I just found those GUI programs myself. No sense reinventing the > wheel; > I will check out the functionality and make sure I don't overlap. I am most > interested > in a GUI front-end for updating binary updates to the base system. Thank > you for taking > your time to help! I will keep researching current GUI projects and make > sure this is > worthwhile. > > Everyone has given me much to work with, I appreciate it all. > > Justin Muniz > Could you also take a look at how security/pinentry-* ports offer multiple ways to implement a GUI for a simple service, it offers a curses, QT and GTK frontends to pinentry. -Kimmo