Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Software Center

2012-02-22 Thread Stephen Smally 
Well, i haven't ported it to packagekit yet, but i'm planning it along 
with the vala rewrite.
I will talk to the lubuntu team about the libgranite integration, which 
seems very light and useful.
I'm also planning to work on the interface, because now is a little 
messy, anyway it won't change a lot.


Stephen Smally

On 02/21/2012 07:14 PM, Сергей wrote:
2012/2/21 Sergio Spinatelli >


Cool! Is there already a LP page to check out? :)


Sergio, I beleive it's https://launchpad.net/lubuntu-software-center 
project, 
https://code.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-software-center-team/lubuntu-software-center/vala-port 
 
branch.


Stephen, it's always great to hear about collaboration opportunities! 
I have to admit I haven't tried Lubuntu Software Center yet, but I 
heard good things about it. I'm not in a position to reply on behalf 
of the project, but having a common core sounds awesome even if we'll 
have to build a different UI atop of it. It's the lack of a good core 
that prevented us from doing any SofwareCenter-related work.


Well, if i don't misunderstand, you are looking for a
elementary-styled software center.


Well, it's not about styling really, it's more about behavioral 
consistency and sane user experience design. Judging by the 
screenshots, your approach to user experience plays rather well with 
ours, so I don't expect any big UX design dissidence.
When it comes to UI code, for sure we will want to share many widgets 
(AppMenu, filterbar, "no relevant items found" screen, etc) with other 
elementary applications using our GTK widgets library called Granite. 
This might conflict with sharing code between "flavors" of the 
Software Center, but in my opinion those widgets work well in any DE 
and, since Granite should be present in Ubuntu Precise universe 
repository, I can't see any obstacles to adopting Granite in Lubuntu 
flavor too. But that, of course, is entirely up to you.


I hear you ported the Center to PackageKit recently, that sounds 
great! I wonder if you still use AptDaemon alongside it or Ubuntu 
finally managed to bridge PackageKit interfaces to AptDaemon in a sane 
way. But that's my idle curiosity, either way should be fine for us 
for the time being :)


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elementary OS integrator


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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Software Center

2012-02-21 Thread Сергей 
2012/2/21 Sergio Spinatelli 

> Cool! Is there already a LP page to check out? :)


Sergio, I beleive it's https://launchpad.net/lubuntu-software-centerproject,
https://code.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-software-center-team/lubuntu-software-center/vala-portbranch.

Stephen, it's always great to hear about collaboration opportunities! I
have to admit I haven't tried Lubuntu Software Center yet, but I heard good
things about it. I'm not in a position to reply on behalf of the project,
but having a common core sounds awesome even if we'll have to build a
different UI atop of it. It's the lack of a good core that prevented us
from doing any SofwareCenter-related work.

Well, if i don't misunderstand, you are looking for a elementary-styled
> software center.
>

Well, it's not about styling really, it's more about behavioral consistency
and sane user experience design. Judging by the screenshots, your approach
to user experience plays rather well with ours, so I don't expect any big
UX design dissidence.
When it comes to UI code, for sure we will want to share many widgets
(AppMenu, filterbar, "no relevant items found" screen, etc) with other
elementary applications using our GTK widgets library called Granite. This
might conflict with sharing code between "flavors" of the Software Center,
but in my opinion those widgets work well in any DE and, since Granite
should be present in Ubuntu Precise universe repository, I can't see any
obstacles to adopting Granite in Lubuntu flavor too. But that, of course,
is entirely up to you.

I hear you ported the Center to PackageKit recently, that sounds great! I
wonder if you still use AptDaemon alongside it or Ubuntu finally managed to
bridge PackageKit interfaces to AptDaemon in a sane way. But that's my idle
curiosity, either way should be fine for us for the time being :)

Cheers,
--
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elementary OS integrator
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Software Center

2012-02-21 Thread Cassidy James 
I definitely think this is something we should look at collaborating on.
On Feb 21, 2012 10:54 AM, "Sergio Spinatelli" 
wrote:

> Cool! Is there already a LP page to check out? :)
>
> 2012/2/21 Stephen Smally 
>
>> Hi Again guys!
>> You asked me if there is something we can collaborate on (Cassidy James
>> asked).
>> Well, if i don't misunderstand, you are looking for a elementary-styled
>> software center.
>> As you probably (or probably don't) know, i'm currently working on
>> Lubuntu Software Center, which is a kind of light rewrite of USC. Now i'm
>> rewriting it in Vala, because Python is too slow to handle a lot of data,
>> and i was planning to make it available on other distro. If you are
>> interested, we can develop a common part of Lubuntu Software Center (which
>> will be probably named Light Software Center, or another cooler name), then
>> fork it in two project for lubuntu software center and elementary software
>> center.
>>
>> Let me know if you are interested.
>>
>> Regards, Stephen Smally
>>
>> P.S. please remember to reply to me too, i'm not currently subscribed to
>> this list.
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Software Center

2012-02-21 Thread Sergio Spinatelli 
Cool! Is there already a LP page to check out? :)

2012/2/21 Stephen Smally 

> Hi Again guys!
> You asked me if there is something we can collaborate on (Cassidy James
> asked).
> Well, if i don't misunderstand, you are looking for a elementary-styled
> software center.
> As you probably (or probably don't) know, i'm currently working on Lubuntu
> Software Center, which is a kind of light rewrite of USC. Now i'm rewriting
> it in Vala, because Python is too slow to handle a lot of data, and i was
> planning to make it available on other distro. If you are interested, we
> can develop a common part of Lubuntu Software Center (which will be
> probably named Light Software Center, or another cooler name), then fork it
> in two project for lubuntu software center and elementary software center.
>
> Let me know if you are interested.
>
> Regards, Stephen Smally
>
> P.S. please remember to reply to me too, i'm not currently subscribed to
> this list.
>
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