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Re: [opensuse-gnome] package\selector
- From: James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:38:39 -0400
- Message-id: <1192073919.4876.25.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 22:20 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 00:19 -0400, Boyd Timothy wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the feedback. I think you may be on to something. Most
> > people who aren't familiar with the individual package names are going
> > to have a really hard time finding a piece of software without seeing
> > some sort of category separation. I don't see a reason we shouldn't
> > automatically help out the user by arranging them in the patterns.
> >
> > Anyone else care to also jump on this band-wagon? :)
>
> +1
>
> For 10.2 / 10.3 we made a big push in improving the patterns (e.g.
> making sure that the "GNOME Development" pattern really has everything
> you need to do development), but they can certainly be further improved.
>
> Is there a bug about changing the default view to use patterns? I'd
> like to add it to the bug list.
>
> Federico
>
Could a change like this just be added to a patch?
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> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 00:19 -0400, Boyd Timothy wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the feedback. I think you may be on to something. Most
> > people who aren't familiar with the individual package names are going
> > to have a really hard time finding a piece of software without seeing
> > some sort of category separation. I don't see a reason we shouldn't
> > automatically help out the user by arranging them in the patterns.
> >
> > Anyone else care to also jump on this band-wagon? :)
>
> +1
>
> For 10.2 / 10.3 we made a big push in improving the patterns (e.g.
> making sure that the "GNOME Development" pattern really has everything
> you need to do development), but they can certainly be further improved.
>
> Is there a bug about changing the default view to use patterns? I'd
> like to add it to the bug list.
>
> Federico
>
Could a change like this just be added to a patch?
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
213 S. Main st
Newmarket NH, 03857
603-659-3271 *318
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
Registered Linux user #440182
http://en.opensuse.org/Education
Good things to read!
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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