Ximian Red Carpet Channels

The Ximian Red Carpet window has a shortcut bar along the left side with four items in it: Summary, News, Subscribed Channels and Unsubscribed Channels. Each channel represents a category of software or other data, such as channels Ximian GNOME for Ximian GNOME desktop software, and Ximian Preview, for previews of Ximian software. You'll also see third-party channels, where you can download software like the Sun StarOffice office suite, and the Opera web browser.

The menu bar for Ximian Red Carpet is quite simple. You should, however, be aware of the View->Refresh menu item. Refresh will reload all the Ximian Red Carpet data, in case it has changed. Use this if you have installed or removed software at the command line while running Ximian Red Carpet or if you think that new packages might have become available since you started the application.

Channel Subscriptions

To subscribe to a channel, do this:

  1. Click on the Unsubscribed Channels button in the shortcut bar. This will show you the channels available to you.

  2. Click on the channel that interests you.

  3. Click the Subscribe button at the lower right, or select Subscriptions->Subscribe. When you have subscribed to a channel, information about it will appear in your Ximian Red Carpet summary.

To unsubscribe from a channel, do the reverse:

  1. Click on the Subscribed Channels button in the shortcut bar. This will show you the channels to which you currently subscribe.

  2. Click on the channel that you want to remove from your subscribed list.

  3. Click the Unsubscribe button at the lower right, or select Subscriptions->Unsubscribe. When you have cancelled your subscription to a channel, information about it will no longer appear in your Ximian Red Carpet summary.

Getting Down to Work

Now that you have set your subscriptions to your liking, you're ready to add, update, and remove software. This section will show you how.

Each subscribed channel has a series of buttons along the top right: