Richard Hally wrote:
Will Woods wrote:
Fedora 9 will have a lot of new and exciting things. Naturally, we want those things to be stable and well-polished for the final release.
With that in mind, here's a list of things that deserve especially close attention.
- PackageKit
This *replaces* pup and pirut, by default, on all new installs. If you're following rawhide, *please* disable or remove pup and pirut and test this. It's very important that you file bugs about *any* problems with PackageKit. Use the "gnome-packagekit" component in bugzilla for bugs about confusing (or missing) UI pieces, and "PackageKit" for bugs about backend errors, missing capabilities, or other (non-UI) problems.
Holy smoke! Batman that packagekit is lame. It's not ready for prime time yet. The first two minutes and I have a list of things wrong. Where to start:
- No help.
- under the "groups" tab, the list of groups is disorganized.
do see something in this tab ? I get an message box saying: "No packages cache is available. Yum cache was invalid and has been rebuilt." I asked this course I want to fill a bz today, but if you see something more then me, I'm not sure what to fill.
- the list of packages in a group needs to be sorted.
- just having a different color to indicate installed or not installed
is *bad* ui design. think of colorblind people. 5. How do you select multiple packages to install at the same time? 6. how do you expand the "description" text box?
number 5 is a real usability problem. I cannot understand how people are thinking this is ready to be the default s/w management app.
+1 That's what I was asking myself yesterday also, when I investigated the above problem a little bit deeper.
Good luck with your bugzilla. I'll resume putting things in bugzilla when I start getting responses to things I have already put in.
HTH Richard