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On Thursday 25 February 2010, BRM wrote:
> |I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> |preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having
> |konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in
> |the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to
> |resolve.
> |
> |In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2
> |years out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been
> |understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed
> |information on a Kuroo overlay.
> |
> |And I also came across Porthole; however, all versions are marked
> |Unstable/Testing (~) at the moment.
> |
> |Can anyone give some advice on these or others?
> |
> |
> |Ben

You can try the plasma-emergelog plasmoid
(http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-emergelog?content=103928).
There are ebuilds for the 0.0.1, 0.02 and development version in the kde
overlay. This isn't a GUI interface for portage: it simply displays the last
entries of the emerge log file (it also works with paludis and pkgcore) and is
updated as the log file changes.

Stefano

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No, it isn't, though it is very different now, these screenshots are from a
very old version. Now it is much more coloured and beautiful with some newer
tasks.

The only thing that I read emerge output and show my way is the pretending
packages that will be installed and output from eix-diff to show database
diffs. So, you can get a systray message saying how many packages portage will
install when you ask to check for updates. For every other command what I said
is true, it opens a konsole with the desire action.

Regards,
--
Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Control and Automation Engineer
Gentoo Foundation Member

Em Qui 25 Fev 2010, às 03:35:59, Stroller escreveu:
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 05:32, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote:
> > ...
> > Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make
> > portage daily
> > tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you can find it on app-
> > portage/kportagetray at kde overlay.
> >
> > ...
> > I decided to use a very simple approach: it is a program that stays
> > on systray
> > and when you choose some action, it opens the konsole with the
> > command you
> > want using kdesu for root access. So, if you click at "upgrade
> > world", it will
> > open a konsole with kdesu and will run "emerge -vaNDu world".
>
> Is this to say the application looks rather different that the
> screenshots you posted before?
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/204446
>
> Stroller.

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----- Original Message ----

> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> > BRM wrote:
> > > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage,
> > > preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having
> > > konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in
> > > the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to
> > > resolve.
> > In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge.log
> > It tells you what is being installed at present
> > Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f
> > /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> Set the terminal up so that it displays the running command in the titlebar.

I do have that setup - and it _use_ to work just fine. However, now it just shows "python 2.6".
So I'm looking for a better solution.

The 'genlop' tool that Dale suggested looks like a great find; so looks like I have something even if I don't find a GUI.

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
<ronisbr@gmail.com>
> Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make
portage daily
> tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you
can find it on app-
> portage/kportagetray at kde overlay.
<snip>

While I like the idea of having something in the system-tray, I'm not a fan of you solution.
I'd much rather have a nice GUI interface wrapped around it all.

BTW, you have the same problem if the SSH connection or KConsole is closed during an emerge.
You can get around that using 'screen' kind of, but needless to say - just using KConsole doesn't solve the problem.

Also, with KDE/Qt you can wrap processes (QProcess, not sure what the KDE wrapper is) and get their I/O,
so you could probably try wrapping a detached process of the desired command and then just pull its I/O.
I would be surprised if the other GUIs were not either doing that or directly working with emerge/portage via an API (if there is one aside from the command-line).

Ben

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On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote:

> I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not
> being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process

Have a look in this list for messages containing the string %w. There
were four on the first and second of the month.

--
Rgds
Peter.

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On 25 February 2010 11:40, BRM<bm_witness@yahoo.com> wrote:


I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4.
Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve.


I thought that in the window title bar, it will tell you something
useful about the present emerge command?

I switched from kde a little while ago, and now I mostly use frameless
terminals in xfce (it ends up looking something like xmonad).

I am pretty sure I used to have this in konsole, whether it was
default or I had to tweak some settings to get it, I dunno. And if
konsole can't do it, something can.

(I'm not answering your exact question, I know, but if it's just an
issue to know your status on an emerge process generally, like which
package you are on and what number package it is out of the full
emerge list running, the title bar can show you that.)

Regards,
daid




It used to do just what you said but it doesn't any more. I noticed
this a while back. I think it was after a portage upgrade but I'm not
sure. I just know that the info is not like it was and is pretty much
useless now. We all know that portage is in python. ;-)


Dale

:-) :-)

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On Thursday 25 February 2010 02:40:23 BRM wrote:



I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not
being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process


Have a look in this list for messages containing the string %w. There
were four on the first and second of the month.




I searched this list and didn't find anything related to this. The last
message containing "%w" was back on Nov last year. Either I didn't get
the messages or it was on another list.


Could you post the message for us? I would like a fix for this as well.

Dale

:-) :-)

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On Thursday 25 February 2010 19:40:17 Dale wrote:

> Could you post the message for us? I would like a fix for this as
> well.

Hmm. I can't find it now either. Anyway, this is what I did:

Right-click in the Konsole window, select Edit Current Profile, open the
Tabs tab and add ": %w" to the string in Tab Title Format.

Now I think about it, this doesn't sound as though it will do what I
want, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I never use tabs in
Konsole, preferring to have several instances running so that I can see
what they're up to.

HTH - it's worth a try I suppose.

--
Rgds
Peter.

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:37 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Now I think about it, this doesn't sound as though it will do what I
> want, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I never use tabs in
> Konsole, preferring to have several instances running so that I can see
> what they're up to.

With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the content
of multiple tabs at once.


--
Neil Bothwick

Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats.

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On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the
> content of multiple tabs at once.

Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful.

--
Rgds
Peter.

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On Friday 26 February 2010 15:39:52 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the
> > content of multiple tabs at once.
>
> Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful.
>

In the menu:
View -< Split View

Then you can choose to split it horizontally or vertically.

To undo, close the "active view"

HTH,

Joost