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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/17/2014 06:55 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quickly writing this crazy idea before it vanishes :D
>
> While I was chatting with Kibo's Member (Staff) on IRC, I found this
> account who just followed me:
>
> https://twitter.com/UbuntuMail
>
> I sent them this:
> https://twitter.com/amjjawad/status/545199498100613121
>
> After I did, I had this thought in mind:
> Aren't we FLOSS non-profit project?
> Aren't we are doing all that because we do love helping others, etc?
> Aren't we need to spread the word of ToriOS around the world so
> everyone can use it and save their money?
>
> Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!
>
Hi Ali,
I think schools could greatly benefit from our OS.  I think it would
also be nice to make something similar to the dev tools assistant (can't
remember what it is actually called) on Fedora.
Basically have a simple interface (maybe similar to the settings
manager) where the user can click a button and install things easily.  I
attached a simple design...  We can of course use the normal category
icons, and whatnot.

In order to do this we'd need everyone on the list and in social media
land to contribute information about what they install for these cases.
The when the user is ready to install we could make a list of the
programs to be installed (probably with human readable titles not just
package names) and let the user remove items from the list that they may
not want.
This is a fairly simple program to make if it is done with a combination
of fltk and system() plus some handy zenity bash scripts... otherwise it
would take me a long while to figure out how to interface with dpkg/apt
and pkexec or whatever I need for privaleges... there may be an existing
library that makes this very easy, but I have never thought about making
this type of program so I really don't know.

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team

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