Re: Proposal for the future - (was: KDE SIG QA help needed)

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On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 20:09 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 21:03 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > I had a quick look at dnfdragora since I hadn't heard of it before Rex
> > > > mentioned it (I normally just run dnf from the command line). Two
> > > > things struck me:
> > > > 
> > > > * No way to see what packages depend on the one you're looking at.
> > > 
> > > If you try to remove the package, it will tell you. And Discover cannot tell
> > > you this at all.
> > 
> > If it will tell you when you try to remove the package, then clearly it
> > can give this information.
> > 
> 
> The information is solved just-in-time as the query is sent.
> dnfdragora just gives you what dnf tells it.

I never imagined otherwise. However dnf can run in test mode, which
would appear to be the obvious way to deal with this.

> > > > * No way to resize panes to see more descriptive text and less of the
> > > > package list.
> > > 
> > > Discover does not have such panes to begin with.
> > 
> > The main window is divided into a number of regions, all of fixed size,
> > i.e. the borders between these regions cannot be moved. Only the main
> > window itself is resizable. This is poor UI design.
> > 
> 
> The code is on GitHub, feel free to contribute a fix:
> https://github.com/manatools/dnfdragora

Not interested. As I said, I don't use any of these tools. I was simply
commenting on a couple of aspects that struck me when I looked at this
one.

poc
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