Re: [Synaptic-devel] Distribution switch in main window

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:05:08PM +0200, Jens Hatlak wrote:
> Hi list!
Hi Jens,
 
> I'm new here, but not to Synaptic itself. I like it very much, 
> especially the Distribution switch on the Experts tab in Preferences. My 
> Debian system is testing/unstable, which means I normally use testing 
> but switch to unstable very often to install newly-released versions of 
> software like KDE. The Distribution switch allows me to both keep my 
> system consistent and install software from unstable with all 
> dependencies satisfied.
> 
> What I'd like to see is that very Distribution switch in the main 
> Synaptic window, e.g. next to the search button. Off by default and only 
> activatable for experts, of course. I think it would be very handy.

Synaptic has to rebuild the package cache when you change the default
distribution. This can take a couple of seconds. Do you think this is
acceptable? 

It's actually not very hard to add, most of the code is
there. Unfortunately I have very limited time right now :/

It would be very nice if we would add a configurable toolbar in the
future. We could add cool toolbar entries like this distribution
switch, a shortcut for the "foce version" and other things (off by
default, but available).

> Another question I'd like to ask is whether the ability to select from 
> which distribution a single package should be installed (using radio 
> buttons) will come back. It was present in earlier versions (0.4x I 
> think) but went away, due to a rewrite I guess.

It there again in 0.52 under "Packages/Force Version". 

bye,
 Michael


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