NPM going Beta soon !!!

I've spent the last 3 hours or so hashing out changes in NPM's sources.


I'm not totally satisfied with the look of the settings dialog, I don't think it looks professional enough for a proper release... Maybe it is just me. This is one reason I'm axious for the Qt4/KDE4 port because I'd like to get my arms around some of the changes in layout but I guess it can wait.

I still need to come up with icons for the menu to replace the text labels (ports, logging, network) but I think this is a good enough settings front end for now. I took a quick screen shot of each of the pages that show the preferences that I've setup so far:

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That should take care of the basic user settings for now. I really think it is time I start to focus on the back end slots. Because as much progress as I have made in the last several commits of getting the GUI to work with the settings system I never got around to writing code to get it to make setting changes persistent through the GUI :o)


Once that OptionsInterface and related code is done and interfaced with the code in portactions.py I can work on the next phases I need done before a beta release:

1. Implement the GUI front ends for running portsnap/cvsup/csup, atm it should run but without user output and a start button lol.
2. Write the about dialog and integrate access of the Options GUI (the above screen shots show it) into NPM_MainWindow (the main application window).
3. Alternate NPM_MainWindow forms that can be loaded at user choice :-)
4. Tweak code for setting ports build options more

After that, I guess Neo Ports Manager will be ready to have a Beta Release.


The handling the dialog that stands in for make config, I know sooner or later I'm going to have to resort to calculating a full scale depends list of options much like make config-recursive does because doing otherwise would screw up during any operation that tries to do a make config: the display area is read only to the user, no I/O form user to portupgrade and friends. Fixing that will come later... I also need to get my tookus back to the German translation when I've got the time to spare.


Oh what fun it will be when NPM hits a 1.1 Release, I can finally have a coffee break of sorts <_< hehe.


I would do more tonight but work is in the morning... Thus time to go to bed when you consider it's after 0330R [local morning], well at least this is the earliest I've gone to bed in awhile LOL.