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<tt>First, I will say that I did take another look at the package
manager </tt><tt>and yes it does list all installed and available apps
from all my </tt><tt>repos. The search tool works just like "yum list
| grep [whatever]" </tt><tt>which is nice. The 'Big List Button"
generates a list that I could see </tt><tt>might be imposing to a
user, but if you have the viewpoint that users </tt><tt>should not be
installing software (I agree in a corporate environment) </tt><tt>then
who cares, right?<br>
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<tt>Rahul Said:</tt><br>
<tt>Generally users can install packages from groups which is
provided as </tt><tt>the primary interface or search and install any
package they want. If </tt><tt>they do want to list all the packages,
then yes the choice might be </tt><tt>intimidating to them. Do you
have any suggestions to improve the user </tt><tt>interface?<br>
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I think the checks are a good way of showing what is installed. Not
sure why there are two checks though. It is very straight forward to
click on the apps to install.<br>
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I would suggest putting a search box on the list window. I found that
you can type the first few letters of the app in and it goes to that
vicinity in the list which some people seem to like. A search box
could also find key words in the description. Combining the search a
list windows would make sense. You could do it like Thunderbird's
"subject or Sender" search works. Type in a keyword and only items
with that keyword show. Click the X and the entire list comes back in
view.<br>
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Next, I would like to know where the app listed is coming from. If I
have a lot of repos set up, I might care. Also, I would like to know
if there was more than one repo offering a particular RPM, but I never
tried that with yum.... A new radio button that would sort by repo or
source would be cool. At least showing the source in a column on the
list would be useful. I like that in the list function in yum.<br>
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Also, in keeping with other discussions about user privileges and
software. Something we do with a tool called Marimba on the windows
world is to provide a list of apps that the user can install with other
available apps grayed out. To get access to the grayed out apps, they
must make a request, but that way they can look to see if they exist on
the YUM inventory.<br>
<br>
Any chance of sorting the apps by logical groups? Sort of like the
package view, but with everything in the list. I have not seen
anything in the yum outputs that could be used to do that, but wouldn't
it be cool.<br>
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