Sabayon Control Center

[mélodie]

Hi,

Yokmp, the SCC looks very nice !

chasha420, I think you are quite right about the front ends. Same as I said before I don't code, but I have 2 machines ready to test any new front end. About Ubuntu, there is one gui which looks quite good among others, it's the one where all the descriptions for apps stand in their respective sections, ready to be downloaded and installed ("package center" ?). About Control Center, the one which is starting to take shape has a nice look with items well positioned.

Yokmp, is that ready for a test ? I suppose the instructions for compiling are inside ?

Regards,
Mélodie

[yokmp]

Thanks!

You can test it:
Basically you only need to download and unzip the file. Then cd into the folder and write 'qmake && make'. Thats it.
You can then start it with './scc_launher.sh' or 'source scc_launcher' (the script will be replaced …) or start the scc file directly (no root rights but the scc can't do anything useful atm …).
Alternatively you can load the scc.pro file into your QtCreator if you have installed it.

Ah and before i forget, there is a SCC.desktop file which you can use to start the SCC

Can you make a Screenshot of the GUI you mean?

I wasn't very active the last weeks so don't expect any big changes. I've added some new code but see yourself

[mélodie]

Can you make a Screenshot of the GUI you mean?

I have screenshoted the screenshot provided by Synaptic, in a Virtualbox machine.

Here:


I am looking in a Lubuntu, and this package would use 424 MB additional disk space !

/Edit : about 45 MB really.

[yokmp]

Looks familiar. As you may see, ive put a button in the left bar called 'Main'. It shows a table with some (not connected) buttons ( the left bar is some kind of quck access menu btw.).
In the next weeks ill connect the Buttons, finish the Settings Dialog and fix some bugs. Then i'll focus on the mainwindow.

I crossed the 30mb line at friday ^^

[mélodie]

Looks familiar. As you may see, ive put a button in the left bar called 'Main'. It shows a table with some (not connected) buttons ( the left bar is some kind of quck access menu btw.).
In the next weeks ill connect the Buttons, finish the Settings Dialog and fix some bugs. Then i'll focus on the mainwindow.

I crossed the 30mb line at friday ^^

Hi,

Finally after I installed the distro, removed a few not needed packages and updated, I have added this Ubuntu software center, and it brought only 45 MB of depends. It is pretty handy to discover programs you are not aware of, through their relevant categories.

But this is just talking about guis and is a bit out of topic as not directly related to a Control Center.

I have not found the time to test your alpha CC yet... If not this one it will be the next one, or maybe this one next evening, if I can.

Keep on the good work ! \o/ !

[mélodie]

Thanks!

You can test it:
Basically you only need to download and unzip the file. Then cd into the folder and write 'qmake && make'. Thats it.
You can then start it with './scc_launher.sh' or 'source scc_launcher' (the script will be replaced …) or start the scc file directly (no root rights but the scc can't do anything useful atm …).
Alternatively you can load the scc.pro file into your QtCreator if you have installed it.

Ah and before i forget, there is a SCC.desktop file which you can use to start the SCC

Can you make a Screenshot of the GUI you mean?

I wasn't very active the last weeks so don't expect any big changes. I've added some new code but see yourself

Hi yokmp,

First try first bug:

joyce@comete ~/Desktop/scc $ LANG=C ./scc_launcher.sh
SCC-launcher 0.1 starting - [ OK ]
joyce@comete ~/Desktop/scc $ ./scc_launcher.sh: line 27: kdesu: command not found

Dramatic !

Could you use a desktop agnostic tool, such as x11-misc/ktsuss-2 ?

I just installed it and replaced "kdesu -c" with "ktsuss" and now I can see the gui !

Hi again:
When I click on the left GRUB menu, I get a windowed message stating: "Another Entropy application is running. Sorry.". Sulfur is launched, ok, but... what the relation with Entropy and the Grub button ? the Entropy button is just above.

Up left at the very top of the window there in an entry for "Konsole". Could you rather add a generic console name which can use any console installed ?

I have tried dmesg, as you say it works.

In the section rc-utility, the info message of the second tab, "rc-config" says : "manage scripts for a runlevel". This is not very clear to me, at first sight, until I take a closer look inside the section. I would like to suggest something more obvious... maybe "manage scripts in runlevels" ? or just "manage services" ?

I am looking forward to testing the next version. This one has a general look which is very good and I am impatient to see how I could configure GDM, Grub...

Thank you for this work which I hope you will continue.

[yokmp]

Hi,
some time passed this project and there are some changes but not as many as you may expect. Life always wins =P

But let me try to answer a few questions:

Hi yokmp,

First try first bug:

joyce@comete ~/Desktop/scc $ LANG=C ./scc_launcher.sh
SCC-launcher 0.1 starting - [ OK ]
joyce@comete ~/Desktop/scc $ ./scc_launcher.sh: line 27: kdesu: command not found

Dramatic !

Could you use a desktop agnostic tool, such as x11-misc/ktsuss-2 ?

I just installed it and replaced "kdesu -c" with "ktsuss" and now I can see the gui !

I've included a tiny check for the su-thingys. So it can detect kdesu, gksu and ktsuss now (in this order). Unfortuneately I get some strange 'bugs' by using ktsuss to start the SCC. Like the misslinked Buttons on the left (as you mentioned before/below) or i get errors when i start external programs through it ... i've no idea why.

Hi again:
When I click on the left GRUB menu, I get a windowed message stating: "Another Entropy application is running. Sorry.". Sulfur is launched, ok, but... what the relation with Entropy and the Grub button ? the Entropy button is just above.

See the lines above ...

Up left at the very top of the window there in an entry for "Konsole". Could you rather add a generic console name which can use any console installed ?

I could rename it but the app name which is started is Konsole. I could change it to Terminal instead. I will try to get some loop in there to check which Terminal emulator the user has installed or fall back to XTerm. I don't know why but I don't like XTerm that much ...

I have tried dmesg, as you say it works.

Nice to know. Ife played around with my python script and pastebunz and spammed pastebin with my dmesg output ... sry guys ^^
So the upload works good. I wish i could get the generated Link to a button so you have to klick on it to open your pastie. For now you have to select and copy manually.

In the section rc-utility, the info message of the second tab, "rc-config" says : "manage scripts for a runlevel". This is not very clear to me, at first sight, until I take a closer look inside the section. I would like to suggest something more obvious... maybe "manage scripts in runlevels" ? or just "manage services" ?

The RC-Tool is just a placeholder atm. I think this one will be an external project because it has to manage a bunch of options and stuff. Ive 'outsourced' it out of the SCC and i will do the same with the Network stuff. Its just to many code to manage at this early days of the SCC.

I am looking forward to testing the next version. This one has a general look which is very good and I am impatient to see how I could configure GDM, Grub...

Thank you for this work which I hope you will continue.

Nice to read!
I think about a sort of installer which will get the required packages for you. For example the GRUB config utility or the Network GUIs. It would be cool to have these in one zipfile but I'm not shure about the rights etc.

I'll upload the 'new' SCC in a couple of minutes. And i hope i find some time to write some lines here and there ...

p.s.: Did i already wrote about the install.sh?

[mélodie]

hi,
I don't know if you wrote about the install.sh. About the Grub configuration you might be interested to know there exists a ubuntu package at ppa which allows configuring grub 2 the easy way. https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer
the source:
https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer/2 ... 5.7.tar.gz

[yokmp]

I know about Grub-Customizer. But at the stage ive discovered it it was far more easy to use tools from the repo ...

And there is something more about the 'installation'.
I've build it on a 64Bit system and forget to include the make step for the OpenRC placeholder under /Modules/OpenRC. So you have eventually to rebuild it manually.

There is no diff if you do this before or after running the install.sh.
I should rename it to avoid confusion about the job of the script, because it simply builds/copy the files ...

[yokmp]

Hi.
Long time, less activity. But i didn't give up this little project yet. Real life has dropped a notable amount of work on me /= so ive written only a few lines. In fact i've rewritten the entire thing but not as much to give out ome code. But im on it and it will get done ...

And if you want to join, contact me.