seth vidal wrote:
Rhythmbox is getting rid of the "sources" list, and I'm not sure it's a hot idea for this, either. I think something like a source list should be in a preferences pane or dialog of some kind. It'll be a somewhat rare occurrance for one to add/remove/change a source, so I don't think it deserves such prime real estate.
Where would you put removable media and destinations, then?
-sv
How about a tabbed interface? Instead of using several static panes, bring it down to two or three and use tabs to switch views. You could then expand this idea further without the need for more screen real estate. Personally, I would prefer to have source selection readily available, without the need to pull up a preferences dialog, but I honestly never even use any GUI for package management anyway. :-P
BTW, has anyone considered adding functionality to any of the package managers to support SRPM repositories directly, building packages automatically before installing them? I'm sure it would be a headache at first, but I think that the idea is very interesting, particularly for people on exotic architectures. For example, it would have been great when Livna.org stopped pushing x86_64, because people on 64-bit systems could have used SRPM functionality to continue easily using the Livna.org repositories. Gentoo certainly takes an interesting approach to a similar idea.
Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
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