APTonCD and Themes.

After a long time without being able to add any new functionality or improve something already done, decided to resolve an issue that bothered  a lot users, the visual behavior to using different themes.

To illustrate the problem, a brief introduction: APTonCD uses a color scheme to highlight the status of packages on it’s list.

They are:

• Installed with newer version;
• Not installed but with newer versions;
• Installed but using an old version;
• Not Installed but using an old version;
• “CUSTOM” packages, using the  ‘add’  button or by draging’n droping from nautilus;
• BAD Packages, packages that was not correct loaded by APTonCD;

The most common problem was to show packages with older versions using a color that aware the user for an old package, the development team chose the insensiteve color used by themes in the background color of a Label to show an item that does not respond to events mouse or keyboard. The result can be seen in the figure below:

Notice how difficult is to see informations  of  adduser (3.110ubuntu7) and adobe-flashplugin (10.0.42.34-2karnic1) packages.

After change it, the theme color used is the STATE_ INSENSITIVE for text and not backgrounds. The result is much better.

Now it’s using the new Python-apt API.

There’s much more coming, fasten your sit belts!!!