On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
1. It doesn't show me what version I already have installed (as Synaptic and Aptitude do). To me this is somewhat of a "deal breaker"... this really needs to be included in Smart-gui to make it useful/usable.
I don't understand. Could you please provide a screenshot or a more detailed "how to reproduce"? Which "view" are you using in smart-gui?
I'm thinking in terms of how Synaptic (or Aptitude) presents the information about installed applications.
If I filter the view so I just see upgradable packages, I'm shown two columns... Package and Version. What does this tell me? The version available or the version installed? It doesn't say (although from my own experience it looks like it's showing the available version). Also... assuming it's showing the available version, I can't easily see what version I already have installed (in fact, I can't see any obvious way at all to find out what version is already installed for those packages that are flagged as upgradable).
Look at how Synaptic presents the same info... Package, Installed Version, Available version. It's this installed vs repository version comparison I'm missing. I would hazard a guess that a lot of other people will be missing that same info....
I like smart a lot (use it every day) but I miss the same info: I sometimes do a rpm -q <package> to find this info...
Alright, I'll take this to Gustavo. Regards Christoph