What Language is the Ubuntu Software Center Written In?

guiprogrammingsoftware-center

Just been wondering, since elementary AppCenter is written with Vala and Gtk+3.

Also, what GUI wrapper does it use?

Best Answer

  1. Go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/

  2. Search for "software center" and click on the one with exact name. It should be software-center

    Package software-center

    • trusty (14.04LTS) (gnome): Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software

      13.10-0ubuntu4: all

  3. On the right side, look for External Resources (Home Page[launchpad.net])

  4. In Project information, Browse the code

  5. In root folder, it is clear that it is a Python project.

    setup.cfg
setup.py

    No Makefile, Autotools, cmake...

  6. src not there, looking for an interesting folder name. softwarecenter seems so, in python folder with __init.py__ could be used as module.
  7. Looking inside then ui folder, it has two GUI interfaces gtk3 & qml

  8. For wrappers used, see app.py in each folder

    gtk3

    from gi.repository import GObject
from gi.repository import GLib
from gi.repository import Gtk

    qml

    from PyQt4 import QtDeclarative
from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QIcon
from PyQt4.QtDeclarative import QDeclarativeView

Note:

An alternative way, if you don't want to browse the web. You can activate source code repository then download its source using:

apt-get source software-center

(Notice NO sudo)

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