PackageKit UI

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 12 11:15:49 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Quite a few people are complaining about the user interface of the
> Add/Remove program in Fedora 9. This is correct, as I agree the UI
> interaction was pretty awful in the 0.1.x codebase.
> 
> This was always going to be a stop-gap solution while we worked on the
> 0.2.x branch that supported all the sexy things that people wanted like
> proxy server support, multiple install (and remove) and proper key
> signing support.
> 
> This is the current UI of gpk-application in git master (and rawhide
> from today): http://www.packagekit.org/temp/gpk-application.png
> 
> It fixes most of the problems with PackageKit 0.1.x (other than the
> slowness [1]) and I'm hoping to get a build in F9 updates-testing
> sometime soon. The update viewer and the other tools have also seen some
> love too.
> 
> Comments/suggestions welcome,

* Why are you not using the application icons in the left side instead 
of the right corner completely disconnected from the app itself?

* What about group installation and removals?

Rahul




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