Hi, thanks for your feedback. I know there are major flaws with the current updater (even if you call them minor). The features you mention were actually planed but the time frame from when I began working on the changes till the release of openSUSE was just not enough as I hit many problems on the way. Unfortunately the update policy doesn't allow to introduce new features (and these would be) -- in some ways this is also fortunate because the current code base is not the best. So, blame me for not starting over again when there was still time! Now the _GOOD_ news: I'm already working on a completely new updater that is intended for the next version of openSUSE -- and I want to make it compatible with the current version and I want the community to spread the word about it -- to make it the de-facto standard updater. So as soon as it is ready for general consumption I will post a mail here where to find it and also a wiki page. I can't guarantee anything, but I expect a first release between mid-November and the end of November. Cheers, Josh On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 23:16 +0200, Christian Jäger wrote:

Hello; after being angry _again_ that I have to jump through hoops in order to get useful info about preciseliy _which_ packages have updates waiting, I just wondered whether the opensuse-updater-applet for GNOME really is supposed to remain in its current state.

My minor complaint about it is that if I want to know which recommended and mandatory updates are waiting, I have to wait for yast to update all repositories _again_ instead of the updater showing me right away what it already 'knows'.

My major complaint is that there is absolutely _no_way_ to find out which 'additional' updates are waiting!

The update-manager thinks it is none of its business, and the package-manager doesn't know how to display updates at all... So a user needs to know how to use zypper, or use SmartPM for that; not good.

Sorry, but I feel a little bit disgruntled that the KDE-applet is simply SO much better.

Yours, Chris

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