Apt-tray or similar?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, João Abecasis wrote:

> 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,

FYI, I've added these to the links section on apt-rp.org now. The links 
section has been screaming for content anyway :)

 	- Panu -