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=================== BUG #3864: LATEST MODIFICATIONS ==================
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=3864&group_id=2422
Changes by: Anonymous user Date: Fri 10/10/2003 at 10:27
------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments ----------------------------
"" I think there should be an option (turned off by default) ""
What is the use-case of making this option, versus just always being on? I see
no reason to add an unneeded option - why would anyone need to turn it off,
ever?
=================== BUG #3864: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
Submitted by: mvogt Project: Synaptic
Submitted on: Wed 06/04/2003 at 06:23
Category: None Severity: 3
Bug Group: None Resolution: None
Assigned to: mvogt Status: Open
Summary: ui/usability improvments2
Original Submission: I think this bug has to be splitted into several bugs:
1. About search:
Most users expect to get a video player program when they type text "video
player" in field "Find Package" in main synaptic window. I think there should
be an option (turned off by default) "Exact package searching" (which controls
behaviour to search by description or by exact name in "Find Package" field in
main synaptic window) in synaptic preferences. Btw, why search by description
in synaptic 0.36 and apt-cache search produces different results ?
Search meniu item should be added to *Action* meniu, not to main menu. Also
only one search action with ability search in package name and package
description (like "Filter Packages" dialog in stormpkg program) should be added.
2. Installing recommended and/or suggested packages
With stormpkg installing recommended or suggested packages is very easy. Now
synaptic contains option "Automaticaly select recommended packages on actions",
which is very helpful, but this can also be improved - just do like stormpkg:
when user presses install button and "changes" dialog with packages (to be
marked for installation) is displayed, synaptic could also show suggested
packages in this dialog with the ability to install wanted ones - I think two
more columns could be added - one with checkbox and second one with dependency
type (depend, recommend or suggest).
3. Filtering and sorting
There are no way to filter packages by size or to find a package, that wastes
more space on disk in synaptic. I think in main package view should be columns
"Package Size" and "Installed Size" (or at least one column "Size" which means
installed size) and posibility to sort packages by clicking on headers of these
columns should be added.
About half a year ago deity - very good apt frontend was removed from debian
:(((. This fronted had the ability to sort and filter packages list by size,
section, installed or available version, and other parameters.
Try to use deity and you will see how comfortable and powerfull it is.
You can download deity from
http://files.akl.lt/veidrodis/misc_deb_packages/stable/ (gtk frontend is still
buggy, but curses frontend is pretty stable). You can grab best ideas from
deity and stormpkg :)
Follow-up Comments
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Date: Fri 10/10/2003 at 10:27 By: None
"" I think there should be an option (turned off by default) ""
What is the use-case of making this option, versus just always being on? I see
no reason to add an unneeded option - why would anyone need to turn it off,
ever?
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Date: Wed 06/04/2003 at 09:56 By: mvogt
the search code has improved now, there was indeed a problem with querrys like
"video player". it should now produce basicly the same output as apt-cache
search
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Date: Wed 06/04/2003 at 06:25 By: mvogt
Back to Synaptic, one more usability suggestion - if a package can't be
installed/upgraded, it never says why (that I can tell). It just refuses to
mark the application as ready to be installed/upgraded. If the reason can't be
extracted (don't know how you're getting the output from apt, thru a lib or
parsing output), at least a dialog like "This package cannot be
[installed|upgraded]. This may be due to uninstallable dependencies or a broken
package. [OK]"
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