On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 07.10.2008 17:09, Richard Hughes wrote: > > I really can't believe how rude some people are on this list. > And communicating by mail makes things a whole lot more complicated and > worse afaics, as that form of communication sometimes simply doesn't > work well -- especially if people are not very careful (and all of us > sometimes are not careful enough afaics). Sure, I totally agree. When writing an email my rule of thumb is to read the sentence aloud and think "would I say this to someone on the phone"? -- It's very easy to call software a piece of crap on a mailing list, but not so easy when you're talking to the author in person :-) > Looks great. BTW, is this targeted for 0.3.x or 0.4.x?. 0.3.7, should be in rawhide on Monday. > But nevertheless please allow me to ask one thing: You said "Tri-state > checkboxes are a disaster" last month on this list. I don't doubt that. > But nevertheless they in Pirut make something possible that is (afaics > from the screenshot; it was not obvious where that code lives, otherwise > I#d taken a closer look myself) not possible with PK: get a whole bunch > of apps (e.g. get KDE with one click if you installed the Gnome spin) > installed or uninstalled by (de)selecting just one checkbox. Sure, I still think tri-state checkboxes are a disaster. > It IMHO would be nice to have such kind of function in PK as well. Is > that still there somewhere? Maybe something like the additional "Package > Collections" ( http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-application-search.png > ; second entry on the left side) could still work together with the new > scheme? Yes, good idea. Collections should be installable for both menu types. > Then users can select the default set of a group there; most > will not even notive that the collection names are the same as the > names for the package group. Right. Thanks for the feedback, Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
