New PackageKit and gnome-packagekit in F9 soon

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 23:26:32 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 00:57 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> Yeah but for the periodic update check why should the user care?
> pupplet wasn't displaying the I am "doing something" notification but
> only "there are updates".
> So I suggest only showing it when the user manually request for it to
> check for updates but not after login / connection to the network
> while performing the automatic check.

Sure, it appears so you know it's doing something... for me the hard
drive light goes on and the CPU goes up to 100% for a few seconds, and
it's nice to know what's going on. Maybe this is insane. Comments
welcome.

> >> 2) I tryed to delete multple package at once but after pressing the
> >> apply button it started to resolve deps in the background without
> >> showing any feedback to the user for ~30 sec
> >> (the user might think it did nothing and keep clicking on  the apply button),
> >
> > Valid. Could you file a bug in RH bugzilla please (so I remember), and
> > I'll sort it in 0.2.4 after I get back from GUADEC.
> 
> Sure, will do later today (its 0:56 am now ;) )

2:28am -- I win! :-)

Richard





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