#25 Some enhancements

[Anonymous]

Some suggestions :

1. Remember the last window state : at each restart I
   need to click on the maximized button. The window state
   should be saved between sessions.

2. The same with the horizontal split. By default, the
   pane at the bottom is too small and at each restart I
   need to grow it.

3. Maybe a "Uninstalled Packages" view should be added.

4. In the "Upgradable Packages" view, add 2 columns :
   "Installed version" and "New version" (or something
   like that) so you can rapidly see if it's a major or
   minor update (or a downgrade) and choose to upgrade or
   not. And maybe, the flags shown between brackets by
   emerge (B, NS, ...).

5. Don't find how to tell to use the "-d" flag when
   upgrading.

6. Update the window title of "Porthole-Terminal" with
   the current emerge name.

It's a nice application!

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Hervé ROMANO azuri@free.fr

[Brian Dolbec]

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1 and #2 have been in porthole sinc version-0.2. If it is

not working start it from a terminal window with the -d flag
to activate debug printing. If it fails to save your
preferences it should report it as porthole closes and
exits. Then post the output back here if you were not able
to fix it.

3 could be doable, but we have not had the need or request

for it. I'll put it on my TODO list.

4 has been requested before & I am working on that portion

of code now, so may be able to include that very soon.

5 currently is only available from the advanced emerge

dialog, also portholes upgrades view by default lists all
available upgrades, including world packages and dependencies.

6 porthole-terminal has a statusbar at the bottom that

shows what is processing. That would be a duplication of
function. Emerge does that when running in a normal
terminal window because normal terminal windows do not have
staus bars for apps to use.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Thanks for your rapid answer.

• point 2 is working now (maybe my recent update corrected
  the problem?)

• for point 1, I don't see any problem reported by porthole
  "...
  MAINWINDOW: goodbye(); quiting now
  MAINWINDOW: gtk.main_quit()
  PORTHOLE: normal quit
  UTILS: preferences save()
  "
  If I am the only one, it's my configuration problem
  (metacity maybe). So it's up to me.

• point 6 : it was just to know easily at which emerge the
  queue is when the window is iconified by putting the mouse
  over the taskbar and read the tooltip. But in fact, I don't
  know if the tooltip is managed by the window manager (that
  reproduces the title of the window) or set by the
  application. Is that technically possible to connect the
  status bar with the taskbar's tooltip?

I've read that the project planned to use i18n/i10n. If you
need a french translator, just email me.

Herv ROMANO azuri@free.fr

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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One more suggestion: it may be useful to use gksudo to run
with root privileges.

[Brian Dolbec]

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point 6 taken care of. Porthole terminal will now change
the window title to the status bar text when the window is
minimized or rolled up so you see what the status is without
restoring the window.