On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:03:30 -0400
Felix Miata
David C. Rankin composed on 2020-07-27 14:38 (UTC-0500):
Just going through source listings at
Ouch!!!
there is some kind of new "Pretty Print" html-ized format being used that underlines the entire row containing the srpm instead of the normal raw directory listing that only underlines the package. This (1) doubles the height of the listing you have to scroll and (2) makes scanning the listing awkward.
Is there some way, or switch, that will revert to the simple listing?
Most mirrors have historically provided much faster listing loads, some 30X or more because of the HTML tables doo was using. Large tables are inefficient HTML code to display, besides being much larger in bytes than typical mirror listing content. e.g.
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/source/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/src/ saves as 1,827,714 bytes
http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.2/repo/oss/src/ saves as 5,213,482, or 285% of gwdg listing size.
bug report: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/62255 Looks like the new styles may be an attempt to incorporate improved efficiency, and the added margins and/or padding amounts to a regression.
Previous list thread: https://lists.opensuse.org/heroes/2020-01/msg00023.html
Ouch! The D.O.O page is horrible. I don't see anything underlined, what I see is a double-spaced music paper background (i.e. alternate backgrounds coloured). There's also a massive gap between the rpm name and the last modified date and at some browser widths the last column shows 'Deta' instead of 'Details'. In very narrow widths it just shows the filename and a lot of space to the right. In all widths it keeps wide empty margins that are completely unnecessary for a directory listing. There's a strange icon at the top right, with four small squares arranged in a square (looks like a cooker hob). I've no idea what that means and there's no tooltip. At narrow browser widths there's another icon next to it with three horizontal lines. I might expect that to be a menu but again there's no tooltip and nothing happens when I click on either of them. (Note that I have script disabled and I'm using FF). If I click on a 'Details' link, I'm taken to a page listing mirrors. If I click on 'Map showing the closest mirrors' I'm shown: 'The Google Maps Platform server rejected your request. You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs. For additional information, please refer to http://g.co/dev/maps-no-account'. In short it's a disaster at many levels. It's a design disaster and a functional disaster. The simple listing from GWDG is far better IMHO. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org