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Re: [opensuse-gnome] package\selector
- From: "Boyd Timothy" <btimothy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:03:03 -0400
- Message-id: <d0151e9d0710102203x1528ba9al41328d0bd273d6bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 10/10/07, James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Possibly. It depends on how many people would vote for the bug, etc.
Will you enter it into bugzilla. We'll put it on the bug list in the
wiki and it will get more attention.
-Boyd
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> 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?
Possibly. It depends on how many people would vote for the bug, etc.
Will you enter it into bugzilla. We'll put it on the bug list in the
wiki and it will get more attention.
-Boyd
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