2 July 2021

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Yum Extender is alive again

After almost 5 years of deep sleep, I have decided to continue development of Yum Extender.

Many issues has been solved and support for theming af been added.

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29 November 2015

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Redesign of the Yum Extender UI


I have made a post about the lastest work on make the yumex-dnf UI easier to use.

http://www.yumex.dk/2015/11/visual-redesign-of-yum-extender-dnf.html


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22 September 2014

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New preview release of yumex-dnf

I have released a new prerelease version of yumex-dnf, the next generation version of Yum Extender using dnf as a backend.
It is the first version where work nicely with F21 and Rawhide

http://www.yumex.dk/2014/09/yum-extender-407-released-dnf.html

Please test it and let me know what you think




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11 March 2014

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Yumex-nextgen running on top of dnf


I have done a lot work creating dnfdaemon, there is DBus backend for running package action using the the dnf api. It is almost compatible with yumdaemon, there is the backend of yumex-nextgen.
After this was done, I had to replace 'Yum' with 'Dnf' 3 place i the yumex-nextgen code and it basic stuff was working
Thanks to the dnf team for helping out with the dnf api and implementing the missing bits :)
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15 October 2013

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Yum Extender NextGen packages

I have made packages for Yum Extender Nextgen and friends to make testing easy

Read the details here:

http://www.yumex.dk/2013/10/yum-extemder-nextgen-packages.html
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9 October 2013

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Conky Manager Fedora Packages

I have made some quick fedora packages for Conky Manager a nice tool for managing Conky themes.

The packages is available here.

Currently only for i686, but it is easy to rebuild the SRPM for other archs.
Edit: x86_64 packages for Fedora 19 added now


Extra themes are available here

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7 October 2013

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Yum Extender Demo Video

I have made a demonstration video of Yum Extender NextGen.a software manager for everybody who wants full control, both new fedora users and long time power users.

http://www.yumex.dk/2013/10/yum-extender-nextgen-demo.html

Yum Extender is a rewrite of Yum Extender in python3 / Gtk3 and all package actions is split out in
yum-daemon,  (two dbus services there give easy access to yum super powers.)

Yum Extender is still under heavy development, check the github page for instruntions how to test it live.


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