These last weeks, Enrico and me have worked on a GUI frontend for pmnew. At the moment, the prototype is limited to the task of finding new packages to install.
The goal of pmnew-gui is to have every little detail designed to be as smart as possible: for example, the list of packages shows at the top the packages that the system thinks you are interested in having comparing your system to thousands other systems.
Screenshots
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2007-02/sshot-startup.png
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2007-02/sshot-audio.png
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2007-02/sshot-games.png
Get it
bzr branch \
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/2007-02/pmnew-gui/Setup
The README gives some details about the setup. In short you will have to do the following steps:
apt-get install python-debian python-deb822 python-xapian \
python-apt python-glade2 python-gtk2
./update-data
./pmnew-guiIt works better if you have a network connection, and if you have popularity-contest installed and running.
Feel free to send us feedbacks about the GUI.