Rainer Müller wrote: > What I always wanted to have was to differenciate between command line > tools, graphical applications and libraries. We could add specific > secondary categories for these. Then the GUI could filter out libraries > and present applications only - as that is what the user usally want to > install. That would be more like MacPorts Store.
You could take a look at the Ubuntu Software Centre, if you want to present "applications" differently... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareCenterFAQ There is a project to make it more "generic", although it's highly focused on .desktop files (i.e. not .app): http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream Anyway, what it does is to show the "application icon" and then connect to a server to get screenshots/reviews. So you'll need some code to extract/format those icons, and then a network infrastructure for the "social" stuff ? If you use PackageKit on your FreeBSD desktop, you will already have integration of the icons and portupgrade... Including the security classifications from "portaudit", and the PackageKit graphic interface for KDE and GNOME: http://www.algonet.se/~afb/freebsd/packagekit/packagekit-freebsd.png http://www.algonet.se/~afb/freebsd/packagekit/kpackagekit-freebsd.png It was easier to do it for FreeBSD than for Darwin, due to Ruby rather than Tcl and that the DBUS/*Kit support existed. But there is no reason why this couldn't be added to Pallet, and one could also modify the GUI a bit to include binaries ? http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI GSoC2009 http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI_GSoC2010_Improvement I'm not sure what features are included in the MPWA service, but maybe it too could be extended beyond port submission etc. http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-May/001620.html http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/mpwa/doc/design.txt --anders _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
