On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:15 -0600, Jens Knutson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:42 -0500, 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? > > I would probably automatically scan removable media. Just include a > quick "One moment while I scan for packages..." message when scanning, > since it'd take a moment. > > As for destinations? I'm not sure what you mean by the term. Where > would I install a package except into my running OS? Do you mean like > having an option for something like "rpm --root /foo" ? > > I think the first thing that needs to be asked in this whole > conversation is "Who is the target audience for this tool?" All > discussion must stem from this, or there probably won't be any good > direction for development, other than implementing every one of yum's > features in the GUI quasi-randomly. > > So Seth, since you're ostensibly going to be doing the bulk of the > coding work on this, who's the target audience here? =) Think of it as an installation tool as opposed to an update tool. Some things off the top of my head is: Many users will often want to install additional software from core Many users will often want to install additional software from extras ditto from non blessed repos addition of repositories removal of repositories where the above can be from a defined or dynamic (eg CD/file:///) yum repository. We can take the doc here as a start for figuring out the audience, ignoring the screens bug looking at the many/freq break down. http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/specs/redhat-config-packages/ I think as part of the package gui stack we have a few things: notification (updates available) updating system installation of additional software -- Fedora-config-list mailing list Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list