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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Improved filtering on update candidates | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 | Reporter: | Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring> |
| Component: | YaST2 | Assignee: | Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 10.3 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Markus Elfring
2008-02-20 15:41:20 UTC
Lado what are you mean about it? This is something for the package selector widget... Simply sort by versions: Click on either the "installed version" or the "candidate version" column. That will sort "by colors": Red first (installed package newer than any from any active repositories), blue (there is a newer version in any repository), black (up-to-date). The sorting helps only for a preselected list. I suggest to add an entry "Available software updates" to the drop down control "Filter:" in the top left edge. Would you like to support the easier display of all "blue" components? I guess blind users might appreciate more direct filters in the list box ... Adding more and more entries to that filters combo box does not make the package selector any more usable. There are already complaints that it's too complex (asking us to REDUCE the number). And this request would just add to the complexity with very few users benefitting. For color-blind users we still have the textual information. Blind users already have a hard time coping with the amount of information that is displayed in that dialog. For them it would make the situation worse, not better. We have to keep a reasonable balance between geekiness and usability. (In reply to comment #3 from Stefan Hundhammer) > Simply sort by versions: Click on either the "installed version" or the > "candidate version" column. That will sort "by colors": The ordering by update status does not work any more in the new software management application of openSUSE 11.0. http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/05/sneak-peeks-at-opensuse-110-new-installer-with-stephan-kulow/ I would appreciate an ergonomic user interface for a command like "zypper list-updates -t package". I imagine that the GUI responsiveness can be improved further. If you find a way to do this without wrecking the GUI part completely, please send me a patch. The UI does not have any notion of repository priorities. All it does (and all it can do with the information that is available) is to check if there is a newer version. That is the basis for those actions. That's all information there is. Those "all in this list" actions are meant as a convenience for users for some mass operations - just some add-on gimmick. It was never intended as a poor man's distro upgrade or anything like that. If that's not good enough for your use case, I fear you will have to use that tool that does what you would like to have. And you even already found it: "zypper list-updates -t package". We never promised nor is there any requirement spec that demands or implies that the various tools we provide all offer the exact same functionality. Restoring old resolution. |