On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 07.10.2008 17:09, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I really can't believe how rude some people are on this list.
And communicating by mail makes things a whole lot more complicated and
worse afaics, as that form of communication sometimes simply doesn't
work well -- especially if people are not very careful (and all of us
sometimes are not careful enough afaics).
Sure, I totally agree. When writing an email my rule of thumb is to read
the sentence aloud and think "would I say this to someone on the phone"?
-- It's very easy to call software a piece of crap on a mailing list,
but not so easy when you're talking to the author in person :-)
Looks great. BTW, is this targeted for 0.3.x or 0.4.x?.
0.3.7, should be in rawhide on Monday.
But nevertheless please allow me to ask one thing: You said
"Tri-state
checkboxes are a disaster" last month on this list. I don't doubt that.
But nevertheless they in Pirut make something possible that is (afaics
from the screenshot; it was not obvious where that code lives, otherwise
I#d taken a closer look myself) not possible with PK: get a whole bunch
of apps (e.g. get KDE with one click if you installed the Gnome spin)
installed or uninstalled by (de)selecting just one checkbox.
Sure, I still think tri-state checkboxes are a disaster.
It IMHO would be nice to have such kind of function in PK as well.
Is
that still there somewhere? Maybe something like the additional "Package
Collections" (
http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-application-search.png
; second entry on the left side) could still work together with the new
scheme?
Yes, good idea. Collections should be installable for both menu types.
Then users can select the default set of a group there; most
will not even notive that the collection names are the same as the
names for the package group.
Right.
Thanks for the feedback,
Richard.