https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442161 Summary: Package list in Software Management should not be sorted after each status change Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta4 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ciobi@inbox.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- I'm currently using openSUSE 10.3 with KDE 3.5 and I've looked at both 11.0 and 11.1 beta 4, which share the same problem: in KDE 4.x, in YaST / Software Management, when packages are sorted by their status ("install" / "keep" / "update" ...), changing the status of one package (e.g. from "keep" to "update") also changes its position in the list, while in 10.3 the position of a package in the list stays the same until the list is sorted again or the filter is changed. Sure, it's more consistent to have it this way, but at least to me it's less usable. Or rather it's quite unusable because, as the status of a package is changed, the whole list is sorted again, which takes significant time, and then the package is moved, losing all the context information. If I wanted to install or update several related packages, I'd have to scroll again to find the others. I'm a big fan of the "All Packages" group, which exacerbates the problem (but there are some pretty big package groups besides "All Packages"). In 10.3 I use it regularly to see which packages have updates and decide on a case-by-case basis if I want to update or not, but doing so in 11.x is next to impossible if the packages are sorted by their status. I have a hard time imagining a use case that benefits from the continuous sorting of the package list, so I'd like to suggest to drop this feature and revert to the previous approach (as up to 10.3). I guess some thought went into the decision to make this change, but I just feel that consistency was chosen over usability in this case for no strong reason. Something else that seems related to this: filter by package groups, click on some package group name, scroll down a few pages, then click on another package group. The package list is updated, but it gets scrolled down by several pages, when it really should show the first package in the top row (or perhaps remember where it was for each package group and go to that position when a previously visited package group is selected again). I find no good reason to click on a package group and find that the package list is scrolled somewhere to the middle. -- 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.