Bug 404908

Summary:	Software management - missing keybord shortcuts in ncurses UI
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	David Endres <bigmudcake>
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description David Endres 2008-06-30 02:02:57 UTC

The following are issues of the new "Software Management" module of YaST2 that I consider to be a backward step since upgrading from openSUSE 10.3
(I am using the text only version of YaST from the CLI)

1. I can no longer get a list of installed packages. In the previous version I could simple hit ALT-P to get the list (Filter list of options). But in openSUSE 11 this is no where to be seen.

2. I can no longer easily bring up the search panel. In the previous version 10.3 I could simply hit ALT-S and the search box would appear. Now there are no shortcut keys making the experience more cumbersome.

3. "Software management" now appears to automatically try to install extra packages without asking me. For example. I am running openSUSE 11 inside a virtual environment called VirtualBox v1.6.2, the system secretly add an extra package called "virtualbox-ose-guest-tools" to the list of packages to be installed to the system. If I wanted a system that tries to force what it thinks knows best on me, then I would be using MS Windows instead. The problem is that in the process of trying to be too smart, it would have installed the wrong version of the virtualbox package. So now I have to manually uncheck this package everytime I enter "Software Management", what a pain in the neck.

Please bring back the previous interface of "Software management" as it was far quicker and easier to use.
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Comment 1 David Endres 2008-06-30 02:35:56 UTC

*** Bug 404910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Ladislav Slezák 2008-07-22 10:41:03 UTC

Reassigning...

3) The package was selected because of the HW dependency. You can lock the package (set taboo), then the package manager will never install it. The taboo state is persistent in 11.0, you need to do it just once.

Comment 3 Katarina Machalkova 2008-07-22 11:22:26 UTC

> The following are issues of the new "Software Management" module of YaST2 that
> I consider to be a backward step since upgrading from openSUSE 10.3
> (I am using the text only version of YaST from the CLI)

I'm sorry. I'm aware of that and it was not my intention to make text-mode UI less usable. However, ENOTIME to push all the fixes and improvements to 11.0 Goldmaster. And moreover, it was only after GM release I got some reasonable feedback from the users

> 1. I can no longer get a list of installed packages. In the previous version I
> could simple hit ALT-P to get the list (Filter list of options). But in
> openSUSE 11 this is no where to be seen.

Yes, bug #384085. If you are using Factory, you can grab some new version of y2-ncurses-pkg from there. List of all installed can be seen by switching to 'Repository' filter. @System repository is the local RPM database and it lists all installed packages.    	

> 2. I can no longer easily bring up the search panel. In the previous version
> 10.3 I could simply hit ALT-S and the search box would appear. Now there are no
> shortcut keys making the experience more cumbersome.

Bug #404694. There will be extra Search menu in the main menu bar.

> 3. So now I have to manually uncheck this
> package everytime I enter "Software Management", what a pain in the neck.

Yeah, as stated in comment #2, mark the package as Taboo (e.g. by pressing '%' key).

Comment 4 Katarina Machalkova 2008-07-22 11:23:20 UTC

Anyway, duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 404694 ***