On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:04, David Farning wrote: > > >the exact same *.glades, Why reinvent the wheel? > > > > > Heh. I don't think what it's good idea cause synaptic UI is terrible :) > > But it's only my IMHO of cause. > > If we want to stick to hard and fast KISS rules then synaptic UI not > > 'right way'. > > In any other case you right :) > > > What are your like and dislikes, I'm not married to any thing! > What I am partial to: > 1. A primary packageList area with > a. Package Name > b. Installed version if any > c. available version > d. location of avail ables (with the growth of public reops I feel it > is important to be able to pick and chose where your pkg comes from) I'd recommend looking at the design of the red carpet gui. It is quite nice and surprisingly functional. Barring that the redhat-config-packages gui is nice, if a little limiting for various features. -sv