On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:16 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/11/2010 02:31 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> could we xport this discussion to forums? else more productive for >> mailing list would be a proposal for inclusion into pacman. >> >> C Anthony >> > > Thank you C Anthony, good point: > > With version 0.0.7, it now has the capability to run completely graphically. > It will prompt the user for a searchfilename or searchTerm via the console > or zenity --entry if the name or term is omitted from the cli. So now all > the user needs to do to run this as a pure gui-app is create a launcher on > the desktop pointing to: > > srch2list -z -n > > and a text entry dialog appears prompting for the filename or term and the > results are then returned in a graphical list with checkboxes that allow the > user to select which packages they would like to install and it then > installs the selected packages with pacman. > > I don't know if this is something that can be cannibalized to make pacman > -SS more readable or whether you guys would want it as an AUR standalone. > That's up to you now. I'm done with what I wanted to do with it -- and the > little guy turned out quite handy. > > Let me know what, if anything, you want to see done with it and I'll do it. > > P.S. As for forums -- no thank you, that's all I need -- more web pages to > visit where you have no assurance of finding what you need or of getting a > competent response. In the past I've found forums to be not much more than > the blind-leading-the-blind. I'm sure Arch's is one of the best, but I > dislike forums. I'll do private email long before a forum. They have just > never worked for me. well that might be a little too general; i read/reply to forums, and there are many quality solutions and contributors. let me rephrase: i think the idea is good, it's just that the thread is 20+ replies already. the mailing lists are better suited for arch (official/specific) help/requests/proposals... the forums (or another avenue, like an off-topic mailing list) is more suited to discussion of loosely-related scripts like this. no offense intended whatsoever (like i said i think the idea is sound), but basically, i don't want to hear about it, unless it's being requested for inclusion into pacman mainline ;-) just my 2c. C Anthony
