Bug 395894

Summary:	Merging of package version numbers in software installer makes it less usefull
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User 9WJQF5tTlz <forgotten_9WJQF5tTlz>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	coolo, dmacvicar
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User 9WJQF5tTlz 2008-05-30 16:16:41 UTC

Past version of the package installer had separate columns for the version of an installed package and the version available.

There even was a popup indicating if the available version was newer.

Currently these two columns are merged. It always show without enough width to see both numbers.

Also with so many variations in width and format in version numbers makes the combined "xxxxx(yyyyy)" hard to read.

In addition, the impossibility in getting the columns to stick to the width one sets, causes the task of managing the packages in your system less pleasant.

I'd suggest splitting the version numbers information back to the two column format.

Comment 1 Jiri Srain 2008-06-03 08:21:47 UTC

Which user interface are you talking about? Qt (graphical) or NCurses (console)?

Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2008-06-03 08:34:37 UTC

Must be Qt.

Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-06-03 12:37:02 UTC

That was a design decision to unclutter that list: There was an increasing number of users who considered that dialog too complex. This as a first step to reduce complexity.

This part is intentional, i.e. desired behavour -> INVALID.

Detailed information about package versions is still available in the "Versions" tab below the package list.

As for finding out where newer packages are available, see bug #389602, in particular comment #2 there.