Thanks to you all, I'm really happy to see how much you people care about giving the package-selector a more user-friendly design! Am Freitag, den 12.10.2007, 15:45 +0100 schrieb Ricardo Cruz:
However, I am afraid we can only hack that for installed software. Zypp downloads a file from the repos that has some informations about the packages (names, descriptions, ...), but it doesn't have an inlined icon -- it doesn't even have all the RPM header info. We would need to download the entire package to extract that information.
Could the package-selector not tap external sources, like an ftp-directory with icons, to downloads icons by package-name?
Whenever the user wants to check out what other word processor (to give an example) are available, browsing is more reliable than search, that can miss something. So, browse should really be a first class citizen. ! ^_^
Maybe we could have it together with search, on the filters pane, though it makes only sense for packages. ! ^_^
* dedicated interface for upgrading. We need to give the user more information on the upgrades (and downgrades) available. A nice extra could be doing a diff between the installed ChangeLog and the available one, so the user can check easily what's new. (they aren't very nice). Maybe an extra Upgrade tab page (or Version) should be available when a package has multiple versions.
Yes, either tabs, or on the other hand, dropdown-lists seem a good solution for pre-defined view-filters ('view installed', 'view not installed', 'view upgrades', 'view third-party packages'...) Differently coloured up- and down-arrows certainly aren't good enough (and not intuitive). One more ting: I think we need a way to easily tell third-party packages from core-packages, similarly as it is easy in Ubuntu's package-manager.
About the two pools approach, or the one of yast-qt, we can make it configurable, even through the interface, so don't loose your time arguing about it. :)
A simple and an 'advanced' mode, perhaps? Martin Szulecki wrote:
However, feeling the need for above might aswell just be the result of opensuse-updater failing to give me any hint (even a "Details" would be sufficient; the current only lists official updates) at which packages it would update when I click OK.
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