"Imagine an utility for your
Slackware based box aimed at managing and organizing your TGZ/TXZ
collection the KISS
way."
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Alexandre Albuquerque Arnt - QTGZManager's author. |
QTGZManager 1.0 build_08232009 features
- Reworked interface: gets a menubar, minimizes unused spaces and remembers your preferences NEW
- Compatible with Slackware 13.0 TXZ packages NEW
- Compatible with Xfce programs and gksu (available at
slackbuilds.org)
NEW
- Reworked package recognition
algorithm recognizes the package status instantaneously NEW
- Find a package in your system just
pressing Ctrl+K NEW
- Find files on package content you've
just opened NEW
- Set a default directory to be
selected every time you launch the application NEW
- Make QTGZ starts hidden, enabling
your window manager to automatically launch it without messing your
desktop NEW
- Find the package(s)
that provides a specific file
- Freeze an installed package so it's version is not accidentaly changed/removed
- Transform all your RPMs in TGZs
- Sort your package
lists based on their status (frozen, unfrozen, installed, etc) or name,
both ascending or descending
- Execute it with root access, so you are not bodered by kdesu again
- Hide/Show the main program window just clicking on System Tray Icon
- Transform a TGZ in a
SLAX 6 live module (this is a "hidden" feature you can access
by
pressing "Ctrl+L" over a package, but only if you are running inside
SLAX 6 and have the "make-lzm" or "tgz2lzm" tools)
- View the available packages in the current directory - each with an icon representing its status based on the installed version (if any)
- View all packages installed in the system
- View contents of installed/non installed packages
- Navigate inside those contents,
openning their files and directories externally
- View diff between
package
contents
- View information of selected
package(s), with clickable URLs (if any) and
installed size (for installed packages)
- Move a package to another directory or to the Actions botton pane (using drag and drop) as well as delete any package
- Create/rename/remove/open directories
- Execute actions on packages: install, reinstall, upgrade, downgrade and remove (using the Slackware pkgtools) - with root access, but only when needed (using kdesu)
- Work with a GUI that is fast, easy to use and speaks your language *
- Filter packages in the
selected
directory with hit/miss color feedback
- Ctrl + and Ctrl - respectively increases and decreases the font size of package lists
- Selected directory's name
is shown on the top of the first pane
- Reworked About box
- More view arrangements
through four view buttons
- Open konsole (F4) to work
on the
selected directory
- New Directory TreeView, based on QFileSystemModel (a new and very fast threaded model from Qt 4.5.x which is also inotify aware)
- Package information is showed as a tooltip when the mouse is over the package lists
- The "Find a file" search is now handled in another thread which means it can be stopped and no more freezes the GUI
- Take a
snapshot of your installed package list for future diffs or whatever
you want to
(*) QTGZManager is currently translated to: english, brazilian portuguese, german, italian, polish and farsi.
(**) 1.0 Beta5 was tested under Slackware 12.2 with some current packages, but should run in many other Slackware-based systems, providing you have the Nokia's Qt 4.5.x libraries and compile it from sources.
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FAQ
Q - What do you need to run it?
The 1.0 Beta5 Slackware package version is dynamically linked with Nokia's Qt 4.5.x library, so you need to have it pre-installed. Besides, in order to access all its features you'll also need a Slackware 12.x based system with the following tools installed:
Q - Why is this URL "JTGZManager" instead of "QTGZManager"?
This is a good question. In fact this project started with QtJambi - the java bindings Trolltech has created to expose the Qt 4.3 API. I have a pre-Beta1 version built with it - usable but unstable - due to the status of QtJambi being technology preview at the moment of my test. However the main reason I started porting to C++ was due to QtJambi's license status at the beginning of 2007.
Q - What do you need to run it?
The 1.0 Beta5 Slackware package version is dynamically linked with Nokia's Qt 4.5.x library, so you need to have it pre-installed. Besides, in order to access all its features you'll also need a Slackware 12.x based system with the following tools installed:
- tar - 1.16
- diffutils - 2.8.1
- pkgtools - 12.0.0
- procps - 3.2.7
- rpm2tgz - 1.0
- slackpkg-lmo - 2.61 (only if running inside a SLAX 6 box)
- a kde with kwrite, konqueror and konsole - 3.5.9 (worked with older kde versions as well as kde 4.x)
- a kernel with inotify support (2.6.13 or superior)
Note that in
order to make
QTGZManager compatible with the new Slackware 13.0 TXZ package format you'll also need:
- tar - 1.22
- pkgtools - 13.0.0
- xz - 4.999.8beta
Q - Why is this URL "JTGZManager" instead of "QTGZManager"?
This is a good question. In fact this project started with QtJambi - the java bindings Trolltech has created to expose the Qt 4.3 API. I have a pre-Beta1 version built with it - usable but unstable - due to the status of QtJambi being technology preview at the moment of my test. However the main reason I started porting to C++ was due to QtJambi's license status at the beginning of 2007.
Download it HERE
1.0 build_08232009 Tarball is here (QTGZManager's sources for any Slackware version with Qt 4.5.X libraries already installed. No binaries inside!).
1.0 build_08232009 Slackware package is here (QTGZManager dynamic binary for Slackware based systems, without sources).
1.0 build_08232009 Tarball is here (QTGZManager's sources for any Slackware version with Qt 4.5.X libraries already installed. No binaries inside!).
1.0 build_08232009 Slackware package is here (QTGZManager dynamic binary for Slackware based systems, without sources).