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fbt Registered Member Posts 48 Karma 0 OS	APT Notify Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:57 pm Would like a apt-get notify applet like Mepis 8.0 uses to check for updates.
google01103 Manager Posts 6668 Karma 25	APT Notify Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:54 pm if you use packagekit isn't there a notifier already ? else isn't package management a distro specific function especially considering not all distros use apt? OpenSuse Leap 42.1 x64, Plasma 5.x
fbt Registered Member Posts 48 Karma 0 OS	APT Notify Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:45 am It is but Mepis just released an alpha with KDE 4.3 and it's not included.
Paulfocused Registered Member Posts 31 Karma 0 OS	APT Notify Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:47 pm google01103 wrote:if you use packagekit isn't there a notifier already ? else isn't package management a distro specific function especially considering not all distros use apt? Yeah, and I don't want a notifier annoying me in Debian sid/testing. This is definitely a distro thing, and not something KDE should do. http://twitter.com/paulfocused
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	APT Notify Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:44 pm As Paul said, Apt is a distro-specific tool. Such a tool would need to be developed by a distribution. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
dpalacio Registered Member Posts 240 Karma 2 OS	APT Notify Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:00 am Still it does not make it a bad idea. IMO ideas like these, tough poorly related to the KDE Software Compilantion should be fine, they still belong to the KDE community. I myself, do not like PackageKit. I think that Shaman[1] might be what fbt and I are looking for, once an APT plugin has been developed. [1] http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/i ... -frontend/ connect(post, SIGNAL(readSignature()), qapp, SLOT(quit()));
fbt Registered Member Posts 48 Karma 0 OS	APT Notify Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:58 am A quick search and I only get hits for Mepis and Ubuntu for applet apt notify. So I'm agreeing with you all this is a distro specific app.