During the longest break in the history of this blog, I've been working on the project of my dreams. As exhausting as it got, it almost sucked all life out of me, but it's finally here -
Qt4 port of YaST Control Centre. It now builds in Factory, so you can install it and try it soon. It is by no means perfect and it has certainly quite some rough edges, so please give it a good deal of testing in the beginning. Enough of words for now, let the picture speak
I'd like to use this opportunity to say thanks to all my real-life and online friends for their valuable feedback - they took their time to look at the screenshots, try the experimental interface and comment on it.
"Omg, it looks so gtk2 control-centre-ish" said one of them when he saw one of the final prototypes and ... I have to admit he was somehow right. It was partially my intention to make those two (Qt4 and Gnome control centre) similar at least when it comes to controlling the user interface, not only in order to make our
Doku-Wichtl happy so that they don't have to make two sets of screenshots :) It is in general rather user unfriendly to have users get used to entirely different UI concept when they switch between two major desktops (KDE & Gnome). Moreover, many control-centre-like applications (aforementioned YaST
Gnome CC, KDE4
kcontrol, briefly saw something similar in Win XP as well ... ) use the idea of categorized icon view with underlined category headers (it is maybe because they're all trying to imitate
Mac OS X *evil-grin*)
What's new?
- Transparently to the user, the whole thing has been rewritten to use model-view-controller paradigm (original initiative by Duncan MV)
- Window size and its position on the screen is now persistent - this is something users have been asking for for ages, YaST CC window used to open always in the same hard-coded size, no matter the resolution. Due to QSettings magic, coding it was incredibly easy
- Remember you now have to double-click the icon to launch the YaST module (single click is reserved for something that is not fully implemented yet)
- Modules are searched (filtered) as you type in the search field - that means no more opening of extra window to search. Search is done over the names only, keyword search to come soon :)
And that's all, folks. I'll post some more screenshots of not-yet-ready little features and ask for feedback soon.
Footnote: the bubblegum pink is not supposed stay in the real version. It is my little gift to
Pepa Reidinger.
hedgehogpainter
Comments
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Just a wish though, and I don't know how feasible it is, but since you mentioned kcontrol...it would be a nice touch if YaST and kcontrol could resemble each other a bit more. That is, it would be great if the QT4 version of YaST could be configured, like the KDE 4.3 (and yes, I know QT4 and KDE4 are not synonymous) version of kcontrol. Specifically, I would love to have the treeview mode of systemsettings available in YaST as well. Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I think that mode is by far the fastest method of finding and launching the module you're after.
I'm working on removing the double click. Way too many users complain about it :)
The world need more people like you :-)
Something like this feature you could do for packages searching in qt package management.
and i still can´t find yast webpin client. when can we expected it?