[NEW] gtkpacman

Question

I have created a PKGBUILD for a my friend who is writing gtkpacman, a frontend written in python, using pygtk, to pacman, the archlinux package manager.
PKGBUILD
# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <[email protected]>
pkgname=gtkpacman
_svnrev=`LC_ALL=C svn export --force http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk $pkgname | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d "." -f 1`
pkgver=svn$_svnrev
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="A frontend written in python, using pygtk, to pacman, the archlinux package manager"
url="https://gna.org/projects/gtkpacman"
license=""
depends=('pygtk')
makedepends=('subversion')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=()
md5sums=()
build() {
if [ ! -d $startdir/src/trunk ]; then
echo "Fetching sources..."
svn checkout http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk
else
echo "Updating sources..."
svn update http://svn.gna.org/svn/$pkgname/trunk
fi
cd $startdir/src/trunk
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
rm -rf ../../$pkgname
Any suggestions?
Look at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkpacman/gtkpacman/

Answer 1

It's a nice start. Good to see that it didn't take very long from when you annouced your intentions to start gtkpacman to actually getting a release out.
My main concern is that it doesn't follow any usability conventions we are used to.
It's not obvious what the panels on the right-hand side are until you click on a package, and even then the dependencies are not labeled until you select one.  I'd personally add a few labels for clarity in the interface.
I don't think - although this could just be me - that the obvious way to add packages is to either select the item from the menu bar, or to right click them and use the context menu.
It would be nice to have a search facility to search for all packages that contain a specified word or phrase (to emulate pacman -Ss ...
Finally, the drop down list offers repositories that I haven't specified in my pacman.conf. I personally think it better to honour what the user has specified.
Keep up the good work. I know that many Archers would like a gtk front-end.