Hi :)
Anyone interested to YaST enhancement #399239 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239) ? "YaST's software installation modules should show disk space modification" - reporting disk usage variation *before* the actual installation / removal starting. Any comment?
Yes! It is not 100% true that sw_single and online_update does not show how much additional disk space will be used after downloading selected packages/patches. Ncurses version of online_update client does - it is the 'Total download size' bit under the table listing patches. I somehow dropped that bit out when redesigning ncurses version of sw_single (http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Pkger-main.png) for 11.0. It can certainly come back - any idea where would be a suitable place to display it? Under the package table (just like patch selector does it)? There's a label with currently selected package name, but it's pretty much redundant. Another option would be to display this information in the text fields once users selects 'Installation summary' filter, as somebody proposed in the above bugzilla ticket. Both solutions are pretty simple and fit current concept of ncurses pkg selector nicely. Unfortunately, all these applies to ncurses-pkg only, I can't fix Qt package selector for you ... B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter