PacSyu: a new update monitor and tray client

Question

the user sonlink, from archlinux-es.org forum, has create a system tray tool to look for pacman updates, the name is pacSyu (doh), this work under dbus, python2 and gtk2
the entry in the blog is here: http://sonlinkblog.blogspot.com/p/pacsyu.html
git repo here: http://github.com/son-link/PacSyu
and aur package here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49600
screenshots are available shortly
comments, critics, suggest, and all this things are allowed
happy updating

Answer 1

keenerd wrote:Credit to Falconindy for this hack, though I think he's got an even better method (pacupdate?) now.
I was checking the code of pacupdate. For update db, "pacman -Sy" is exactly what it does, albeit with a sudo..
Here is the snippet from updatechecker.py file in pacupdate:
def sync_db(self):
if not ProcessUpdate().db_islocked():
print _('Syncing databases')
try:
if ProcessUpdate().run_background('sudo pacman -Sy') == 0:
return True
except KeyboardInterrupt:
return False
else:
print _('Pacman is already running!')
return False