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PackageManager is dead, long live 'Download !'

News about the package manager.

It's already almost two years since I started developing the ReactOS Package Manager with help from frik85. But then I lost interest, and started to work on other areas of ReactOS and the package manager newer got finished. Later my crappy and half finished package manager even got part of ReactOS 0.3.0 - what a shame .

However today still don't have the motivation to create complete full featured package manager and I think there are more important things to do at ReactOS for me like work on the CC and Ddraw (yes GreatLord BitBlt is the next thing I will do). But at least a pretty (but simple) Downloader would be nice to have. So I started to create this little mock up in Visual C#.

I will start to translate this into C soon (yes, GreatLord). For the XML-Loading I will rip off my old package manager, and for the download code GetFirefox. So it should be done quickly. The description field is a rich text component, so I did just create a .rtf (richtext) file with wordpad and pasted the code it created into the application.

So people, what do you think about it ? And even more important: I need a help with the artwork. The application icon needs to be replaced, the "Download !" Caption should be replaced with nice a image, the application description field could to improved (you can download the rtf-file here) and maybe you think of a better name (or do you even like it?).

This entry was posted by Maarten Bosma on Sunday, December 10. 2006 at 20:07. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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1. Daniel Reimer says:
   #1 2006-12-10 21:20

   As already said. I love the design.

2. geertvdijk says:
   #2 2006-12-10 22:06

   Gonna be nice

3. Timo Kreuzer says:
   #3 2006-12-11 00:32

   looks great. Would be nice to have another tab or something like that, showing the currently installed apps/ReactOS system/drivers/codecs, with the possibility to update or uninstall. Maybe it's possible to create custom uninstall scripts for apps, that "really" uninstall them.

4. Maarten Bosma says:
   #3.1 2006-12-11 05:46

   No, it is supposed to be as simple as possible, at least the first version. There will not even be install scripts, but it will just download the installers from the applications.

5. James says:
   #4 2006-12-11 05:59

   Excellent work ^_^ a nice tiny installation of ROS with the ability to dload software u need and not forced upon u is cool !

6. Anonymous says:
   #5 2006-12-11 23:29

   very cool. i love the name. but what do the two icons under the "min,max,close" buttons do? i wonder what it would look like with the "version" under the "Download!" caption (which you want, evetually, to become a nice image) and move the "Download!" button further right. or maybe even just swap the button and version info. i should open up photoshop.
   
   Great work!
   
   Matt

7. Maarten Bosma says:
   #5.1 2006-12-11 23:34

   The buttons are for showing the help and the updating the application data and I am locking forward to see your suggestions.

8. Artek Wiśniewski says:
   #6 2006-12-12 11:53

   I don't like this, for downloading i'll simply use browser
   
   If there will be option to add/remove (like in linux packages managers) i'll like it

9. Maarten Bosma says:
   #6.1 2006-12-12 13:44

   Consider this a basis where is such features can later be build up on.

10. Artek Wiśniewski says:
    #7 2006-12-13 12:27

    I'm considering.
    Good luck, i want to have all these usable linux features in ros

11. jason lee howard says:
    #8 2006-12-13 20:59

    it looks so sleek and sexy,yet it kind of reminds me of synaptic package manager in Ubuntu

12. Anonymous says:
    #9 2007-01-09 07:08

    woohoo! BitBlt is coming!

13. Dark SavanT says:
    #10 2007-02-21 18:47

    very good!

14. Anonymous says:
    #11 2009-05-30 02:16

    Good luck. Very good job.lol
    
    Dmitri,
    Wedding photography blog