I've been mulling over something for a while and I finally sat down and mucked with gazpacho a bit to see how it could look. I took a look at the rhythmbox interface and thought about applying that view to packages, too. See the attached .glade file. The idea I was thinking was that you have sources on the left. These are repos, rpmdb, cds, whatever. You can also have dynamic views on the left. Examples: updates, leaf nodes, installed, available, obsoletes, etc etc And you finally have a transaction 'view' on the left. This is a target or destination view. On the right you have a vertical pane the top of the vertical pane are comps.xml-based groups listed based on repo with an 'ALL' group and 'nogroup' group The bottom pane is a list of pkgs, similar to how songs are listed in rhythmbox. If you want to do something with a pkg you drag it to the destination folder. the idea is that for any type of package (installed or available) there's only one thing that can be done with it in the transaction. For example, the only thing you can do with an available package in a transaction is to install it. Even if you already have another version of it installed, you still are just installing one and removing the other. The only thing you can do with an installed package in a transaction is remove it. So simply dragging and dropping the packages you want to do something with to the transaction 'view' on the left should put them in the right state in the transaction. The only place where that's a bit vague is with dragging and dropping pkg groups. B/c groups are in a permanently amorphous state in the current implementation of the groups. That probably needs some revising but let's not muck with that in this email. Then you should be able to run the transaction from there. The glade file attached is a bit rough (okay, extremely rough) but it's mostly just an idea I've been batting around. Thoughts? -sv
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pkgview.glade
Description: application/glade
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