Am 18.08.2012 09:19, schrieb Vincent Untz:
People are talking about apper here. But are there issues in GNOME and XFCE too? Both have their own tool based on PackageKit, to deal with updates (a gnome-settings-daemon for GNOME and pk-update-icon for XFCE).
XFCE works fine for me (on 12.1, on FACTORY pk is useless and thus not used).
For the record, PackageKit running and refusing to quit usually happens when it's busy downloading something -- I would guess it does the equivalent of "zypper ref".
Can't packagekit tell what it is busy with right now? I think the biggest problem is that there is no feedback from packagekit at all for almost everything it does AFAICT. And a "zypper ref" can easily take very very long if e.g. the debuginfo repo is enabled and the internet connection is "slow" (less than, say, 10 Mbits/second). Giving feedback would probably help many people, something like: # yast2 sw_single Error: packagemanagement is locked by packagekit ("downloading repository metadata (7/13)"), should we ask it to quit? (y/N) y Telling packagekit to quit... response: "please be patient, finishing repository update" -- Stefan Seyfried "If your lighter runs out of fluid or flint and stops making fire, and you can't be bothered to figure out about lighter fluid or flint, that is not Zippo's fault." -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org