Hi, The sw_single.ycp module is the one that requests yast-gtk/qt/ncurses the default view. As it is, installer's default view is the patterns; in the desktop, the search. If you guys want to ignore it, modify on YGPackageSelector.cc: - m_package_selector = new PackageSelector (!opt.searchMode.value()); + m_package_selector = new PackageSelector (true); I think this should be changed at the YCP level, since it allows people to modify the default, if they don't like it, without compiling code. So, the change would be on /usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_packages.ycp: + result = detailedSelection( `searchMode ); - result = detailedSelection( nil ); I personally think the more newbie friendly view is the Categories one (even though it needs a re-work on yast-gtk). The groups have easy to browse names, and it has all the software there. Btw, changing views is pretty fast at yast-gtk on svn. I'm not even sure if it worths to come up with our own storage at this point. Cheers, Ricardo Qua, 2007-10-10 às 22:20 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escreveu:
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
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