Apt-tray or similar?

[João Abecasis]

Hi!

Johannes Kastl wrote:
> While there is a tray icon that tells me whether there are updates or
> not, and while smart has a tray icon too, I found nothing like that
> for apt. Is there something like this?

Actually there is. Here are some references (warning: shameless plug
follows... ;-):

    * Software Updater: (my very own...) gtk-based applet, regularly
checks for updates as non-root. Doesn't have a website, but a plublic
SVN repository at

        http://aptrpm.caixamagica.pt/trac/browser/software-updater/trunk

    If you try it out, I'd like to hear your comments and suggestions.

    * APT Indicator: a Qt-based applet for KDE that hasn't seen
updates in a while. It can be found here:

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/apt-indicator/

    * update-notifier: I just came across this Debian package, you
might also want to look into it:

        http://packages.debian.org/stable/gnome/update-notifier

I hope this helps. Best regards,


João Abecasis