[Bug 248668] New: yast ncurses interface not equivalent to the qt-gui
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 Summary: yast ncurses interface not equivalent to the qt-gui Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nine@detonation.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: aj@novell.com man yast2 tells: "YaST2 comes with three frontends: GTK , QT and ncurses. All frontends are functionally equivalent." This is not true. The ncurses interface is not able to do all things that the qt gui can. The ncurses interface of the software management does not feature the important options All Packages/Update if newer versions available and All in this list/Update if newer versions available. This would be the recommended way to update packages (for example from packman) and people like me, who like the ncurses interface more have a real hard time finding out about how to do that. On servers one often even does not have a qt-gui. When trying to add a new virtual machine, yast even tells one: "Virtual machine installation requires access to a graphical environment." It's currently impossible to manage xen domains with yast if no xorg (for X forwarding) is installed on the server. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |lslezak@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 lslezak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|lslezak@novell.com |kmachalkova@novell.com ------- Comment #1 from lslezak@novell.com 2007-02-27 06:56 MST ------- (A hint: You can use 'zypper' - it's a command line tool for package management...) (The problem with Xen installation is known, the problem is that an xterm window is opened for the new VM.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 ------- Comment #2 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-02-27 08:18 MST ------- Yeah, I know ncurses interface is not fully compatible with Qt frontend. I'm planning to change that (e.g. reorganize menus, add some functionality,...), but it was already too late for 10.2. Expect some changes in 10.3 As for the 'Update if newer version is available' thing: I've added exactly this functionality into yast2-ncurses 2.15.3 (see bug #227043). Just go to Actions-> All Listed Packages-> Update if newer version available, and you're there :-) The fact is, that it works meanwhile only for all _listed_ packages, not all packages, but you can easily work that around by selecting Filter-> Installed packages If you'd like to try it, just grab yast2-ncurses >= 2.15.3 from the Factory. If you have any other suggestions, or ideas how can ncurses package manager be improved, I'm all ears :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |nine@detonation.org ------- Comment #3 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-03-05 02:43 MST ------- Ping :-) Is there anything that is missing in ncurses UI which Qt interface has (except for 'update if newer version available' thingy)? If so, let me know. Otherwise I'll close this as a duplicate of bug #227043 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 ------- Comment #4 from nine@detonation.org 2007-03-05 02:54 MST ------- None that I'm currently aware of. Which perhaps means, that I should use the qt GUI more often :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|nine@detonation.org | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248668 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE ------- Comment #5 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-03-05 02:59 MST ------- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 227043 *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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