PackageKit UI

[Andrew Farris]

Bill Crawford wrote:
> 2008/6/13 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:02 +0100, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
>>> Been using packagekit for Fedora 9, and I generally like what I see
>>> (good work!) things that I think can be improved/current problems:
>>>
>>> 1. Do NOT list multiple versions of the same package. I see that in
>>> current Fedora release too. At times the version numbers are not that
>>> easy to compare package-x.y.1.y vs package-x.y.y.1 makes a person
>>> think. Other times if both are uninstalled, selecting the wrong one
>>> will probably lead to an updated available applet anywway...
>> Sure. We've got a LATEST filter in PackageKit for this, but the yum
>> backend doesn't seem to support it. I might hack on that today on the
>> plane.
>>
>>> Solution: only list one - the latest one. If an update is available to
>>> the installed version, use the corresponding update icon
>>> (bugfix/enhancement/security) instead of an open or closed box.
>> Sane.
> 
> Disagree. If you installed something from updates-testing and want to
> downgrade to original release or stable update, that should be listed
> too (with an option to downgrade, preferably presented exactly the way
> as for a newer one, but perhaps dimmed or something).
> 

Perhaps it would be better not to list ANY updates available in the same 
listings as the packages you're installing... but rather to add a new abstract 
group 'Updates' to the left sub-menus.  The currently installed package would be 
listed in its normal place, and any update to it would be listed in the 
sub-group.  If you don't have it installed then only the newest available one 
would be listed in the normal place.

To downgrade, you uninstall, turn off updates-testing, and then go install. 
Nothing more obvious than this is needed for the downgrade case since its only 
something software testers should need to do.

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