KDE Apper

Hi all,

Why (at least I haven't seen it) none of arch based distros uses KDE apper? Is it because there is no person who would write integration with pacman? Or there are some other reasons?

But it could be like debian based have - synaptic (like octopi) and then they have all those big icons and such package managers frontends.

It's just that Appear blends into KDE more nicely - it's not the big icons it's the overall feel. Do you understand what I mean?

Also, about octopi, when I tried 2015.02 (with -Syu of course) in virtualbox - after install octopi notifier showed 'you have x updates' or something like that. But ir I tried clicking/double clicking on that notifier in notification area - nothing happened (worked on Manjaro, though). Will try with 2015.04 after it appears if it still won't work - I'll report :)

EDIT: Just a though - have you though with calamares being accepted under KDE umbrella as so much distributions are using it? And suggest it replacing apper? Then it might get that 'feel' as apper has? Or maybe it's a bad idea as then it would get 'big icons'?

thats a mistake - meant to write 'octopi'.

EDIT: but hey, you reminded me, that calamares in KaOSx is neatly configured to blend into KDE (Majaro calamares styling sucks and doesn't blend in). Thinking loudly: Maybe something similar needs to be done with octopi? Maybe it needs to be styled properly?