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KPackageKit 0.4.0 Released!
3 days ago, Daniel announced the release of KPackageKit 0.4.0. Outside of the lone message on packagekit-devel, I haven’t seen much hooplah, so here I am writing up a news release for the planet. Our last release was way back before October, so quite a few new features were added since then:
- A better transaction status dialog
- Search Filters
- Distribution Upgrades
- Power management control
- Install unsigned local files
- An updates available tray icon
- Global PackageKit notifications
- Grouping of search results
Along with some neat minor features:
- Show time remaining in the progress bar
- Save grouping, subpackages, and ‘newest’ filter settings
- New fancy-pants package details view
For those not in the know, KPackageKit is the KDE frontend to PackageKit, the unified package management system. PackageKit doesn’t replace your distro’s default manager (eg, yum, apt, rpm, or dpkg), but it improves upon it by giving a generic D-Bus interface. Frontends (like KPackageKit, or gnome-packagekit) use these simple calls to do normal tasks like updating your system, checking for updates, and installing packages.
To get the ‘official’ release in SVN, check out revision 927064.
My current project for KPackageKit is implementing the client-side D-Bus interface for apps to install things like media codecs and fonts on the fly.
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It would help very much if you would include screenshots to highlight the newest features.
Actually, the best would be to have a previous/afterwards comparison, but I guess you are just human and have limited time, after all ;)
So, next time I would be delighted if you would find the time to include one or two nice screenshots highlighting the most outstanding and visible improvements :)
i’m using kPackageKit on my Fedora10/KDE4.2 notebook and I’ve enjoyed its gentle update reminders and seamless security updates, as well as its pleasant user interface when browsing for new packages. Keep up the great work!