On 9/9/07, Clayton
Just wondering... why is it that the Gnome version of YAST is so dramatically different from the KDE one in openSUSE 10.3 Beta3?
My oppinion, based on historic observations, says that the reason for that is simply because they like to change the stuff, just for the sake of saying they changed, without absolutely any reason (may the flames begin, I know). If I recall correctly the justification was "to have the stuff in gtk in gnome". But see, kde was forced to have "gnome/gtk stuff" on it, and nobody complained. The zmd applet, for example. But it seems no, they (the gnome people) couldnt have yast qt, no that would be too much, its impossible, cant be accepted. No, they need to be different, they are special.
I haven't used Gnome on SUSE in a very long time, but I don't remember YAST being any different between KDE and Gnome in previous versions.
It wasnt
The Gnome version of YAST is unwieldy and hard to use
100% agreed
- not that the KDE one is a good example,
100% agreed
but it is certainly much much better than the Gnome one.
100% agreed
Isn't it a bit of a major usability issue if the core tools that set SUSE apart from all the other distributions are so inconsistent/different?
Yes, but as Ive said the gnome people want to make it different at all costs.
Also.. who thought that the Gnome version of YAST software installer is a good thing?
I really dunno. Its really one of the most terrible app screens I have ever seen
Was it actually tested with users? Does anyone else find it to be a very poor UI design?
I really dont know, but I would be surprised if it was tested by humans. All that said, does it really matter? Everybody uses kde with qt interface in yast in opensuse. Since you expressed your feelings about it, my advice is dont use the yast gtk version for the sw_single module and dont use gnome. That way you will never see it again, only the qt version, which I think will solve your problems, mostly. best regards Marcio --- Druid -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org