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Any plans to replace that to point to PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" as opposed to YaST? It would be more user friendly in my opinion. (And they both use zypp in the backend anyway) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
I certainly hope not! PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" is hardly usable while YaST's package is the best there is IMHO... No reason to jump on every bandwaggon... Am Freitag, den 19.12.2008, 21:18 -0500 schrieb Justin Haygood:
Any plans to replace that to point to PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" as opposed to YaST? It would be more user friendly in my opinion. (And they both use zypp in the backend anyway)
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lø., 20.12.2008 kl. 14.12 +0100, skrev Christian Jäger:
I certainly hope not!
PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" is hardly usable while YaST's package is the best there is IMHO...
Packagekit's Add/Rem would be fine if it returned partial hits while searching. Now it just returns exact matches, and that is what makes it seem useless. Bjørn Lie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On 20.12.2008 14:30, Bjørn Lie wrote:
lø., 20.12.2008 kl. 14.12 +0100, skrev Christian Jäger:
I certainly hope not!
PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" is hardly usable while YaST's package is the best there is IMHO...
Packagekit's Add/Rem would be fine if it returned partial hits while searching.
Now it just returns exact matches, and that is what makes it seem useless.
It's interesting that both PK and YaST provide installer capabilities and YaST seems the "official" way in openSUSE but PK is being improved and duplicates the functionality. What is the point? The same for Totem and Banshee. Totem seems only for video and Banshee seemed only for audio, but both don't do what they should very well and try to do more and more with the same percentage of functionality completion. A nonsense for me... -- Best regards, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek http://jakubrusinek.pl/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Well, that's freedom of choice... Personally I think that the PackageKit designers would be well-advised to simply use YaST's design for package-management. Greets, Chris Am Samstag, den 20.12.2008, 14:37 +0100 schrieb Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek:
On 20.12.2008 14:30, Bjørn Lie wrote:
lø., 20.12.2008 kl. 14.12 +0100, skrev Christian Jäger:
I certainly hope not!
PackageKit's "Add/Remove Software" is hardly usable while YaST's package is the best there is IMHO...
Packagekit's Add/Rem would be fine if it returned partial hits while searching.
Now it just returns exact matches, and that is what makes it seem useless.
It's interesting that both PK and YaST provide installer capabilities and YaST seems the "official" way in openSUSE but PK is being improved and duplicates the functionality.
What is the point?
The same for Totem and Banshee. Totem seems only for video and Banshee seemed only for audio, but both don't do what they should very well and try to do more and more with the same percentage of functionality completion.
A nonsense for me...
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lø., 20.12.2008 kl. 14.37 +0100, skrev Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek:
On 20.12.2008 14:30, Bjørn Lie wrote:
lø., 20.12.2008 kl. 14.12 +0100, skrev Christian Jäger:
I certainly hope not!
It's interesting that both PK and YaST provide installer capabilities and YaST seems the "official" way in openSUSE but PK is being improved and duplicates the functionality.
What is the point? -- Best regards, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek http://jakubrusinek.pl/
PK supports PolicyKit (or whatever it's called), so it provides easy/quick axxs to a gui installer without having to type in my root password every time. PK is also a upstream app, -> we get feature addons / patches for "free". I agree on the fact that yast is a lot more powerfull, but yast is suse only app. (note that I love yast, and in no way do I want to see it gone) Bjørn Lie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
PK supports PolicyKit (or whatever it's called), so it provides easy/quick axxs to a gui installer without having to type in my root password every time.
Precisely the reason why I like PK better. You don't have to give the root password to your underlings in order for them to install software :). Now if YaST started using PolicyKit as well, I'd be fine with just keeping YaST -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Yast2 is way ahead of PK in my opinion. As someone who currently runs OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora on a daily basis, OpenSUSE Yast software management > Fedora for ease of use currently. They should really emulate yast. Steven Harms On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@reaktix.com> wrote:
PK supports PolicyKit (or whatever it's called), so it provides easy/quick axxs to a gui installer without having to type in my root password every time.
Precisely the reason why I like PK better. You don't have to give the root password to your underlings in order for them to install software :).
Now if YaST started using PolicyKit as well, I'd be fine with just keeping YaST
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On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 11:04 -0500, Steven Harms wrote:
Yast2 is way ahead of PK in my opinion. As someone who currently runs OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora on a daily basis, OpenSUSE Yast software management > Fedora for ease of use currently. They should really emulate yast.
Steven Harms
Agreed, but still, once PackageKit's UI is better is what I meant :). PackageKit is PolicyKit based, which YaST still is not. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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