Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:40 +0200, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I noticed in M7 that QT software management has option "Allow change
> vendor". This option but is missing in GTK software management. And on

Thanks for bringing this to the notice.

> the other side, GTK has check/uncheck box "Close window when done",
> where i can set whether software management is closed after
> installation/removing packages. And this is missing in QT software
> management. QT it´s always closed by default. There is no option in QT
> software management to set this behaviour.
> Will be added these missing features? Now Qt and GTK software
> managements are totally different apps. Not only they look different,
> but they have different functions as well.

A common user would be comfortable with either KDE or GNOME and he will
use one of the two. This is the biggest use case, is it not? Someone who
likes the GNOME environment would want his package manager to have the
feel of GNOME, not just in look but also in button placements and other
settings like "Search as you type" and so on. Someone who likes his KDE
desktop would similarly want his package manager to reflect the
"KDE-way". It sounds reasonable that the two interfaces would therefore
differ. 

I understand that this is undesirable for a person who shuttles between
KDE and GNOME (and believe me I am one of such), but the defaults are
not designed with this in mind. For example you have file managers that
differ quite a lot when you change from KDE to GNOME as the dolphin to
nautilus change is big too, don't you think? As is the change from doing
single-clicks in KDE to doing double-clicks in GNOME.

For those of us who like both sides of the coin, we can set the
package-manager to our preferred interface, can't we? And I really do
think that both these interfaces have their strong points and
not-so-strong points, but I believe that can be worked upon. If there is
some feature parity between the two interfaces, that is a serious issue
and should not happen. That is why I am thankful for bringing this above
point regarding the menu settings in the qt interface to my view.

Also I have filed this report in bug 613822
[https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613822] that suggests
making the status of these options stick/remember across sessions. What
do you think?

-- 
Atri

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