MacLibre GUI improvements

08Jul06

I made some GUI improvements.

Support for applications logos:

There is a new <Image> tag in the xml file for each package that has logo (ex: “<Image id=”logo”>Firefox.png</Image>“). All the applications logos images should be placed in /bin/AppsLogos folder. That’s where MacLibre’s parser looks for them.

Here’s a little flash demo how it really looks like. (Thanks to PJ for putting it on his blog)

I have also added Image size field in package information panel. It’s nice to know the size of the disc image that we gonna download :-) you can see that on flash demo.

I moved the password field entry after Package Chooser Wizard page. Why not just launch MacLibre and see what packages we can install, we don’t need password for that :-) But after moving this entry field to the new Selection Confirmation wizard page, the first page was so empty that I’ve added a nice background to it.

MacLibre Wizard First Page

Future GUI plans:

  • add packages summary at the end of wizard (just after installation) to let you know which packages have been installed correctly and which not,
  • add list of selected packages in wizard page after Package Chooser (the page with password entry field) and label with information about how many packages we have selected and how many megabytes we have to download (ex. “Need to download 33.3 MB in 4 packages”),
  • divide progress bar in Installation progress wizard page into two separate one, one for overall progress and one for current package progress

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  1. 1 Nick Carter on January 28, 2008 said:

    I’m very interested in this project, (it seems much nicer to use than similar package managers for Mac) but it seems the documentation is non-existent. I’ve managed to solve the bad URL issue in the config.xml, but now it asks for a password, and I’ve never been told I need to create an account. (why should I have to? Is MacLibre collecting personal information for some reason? Why not simply send it anonymously if need be?

    On top of this, I’d really like to have the option of downloading newer versions of apps, be they stable or not. Firefox 1.5? 2 has been out for eons, and 3 is just around the corner!

    Thanks for working on a cool project, I have high hopes for this.

    -Nick.

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