No dynamic groups in PackageKit : Solved

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 07:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 07.10.2008 17:09, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I really can't believe how rude some people are on this list.
> And communicating by mail makes things a whole lot more complicated and
> worse afaics, as that form of communication sometimes simply doesn't
> work well -- especially if people are not very careful (and all of us
> sometimes are not careful enough afaics).

Sure, I totally agree. When writing an email my rule of thumb is to read
the sentence aloud and think "would I say this to someone on the phone"?
-- It's very easy to call software a piece of crap on a mailing list,
but not so easy when you're talking to the author in person :-)

> Looks great. BTW, is this targeted for 0.3.x or 0.4.x?.

0.3.7, should be in rawhide on Monday.

> But nevertheless please allow me to ask one thing: You said "Tri-state
> checkboxes are a disaster" last month on this list. I don't doubt that.
> But nevertheless they in Pirut make something possible that is (afaics
> from the screenshot; it was not obvious where that code lives, otherwise 
> I#d taken a closer look myself) not possible with PK: get a whole bunch 
> of apps (e.g. get KDE with one click if you installed the Gnome spin) 
> installed  or uninstalled by (de)selecting just one checkbox.

Sure, I still think tri-state checkboxes are a disaster.

> It IMHO would be nice to have such kind of function in PK as well. Is
> that still there somewhere? Maybe something like the additional "Package
> Collections" ( http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-application-search.png
> ; second entry on the left side) could still work together with the new 
> scheme?

Yes, good idea. Collections should be installable for both menu types.

> Then users can select  the default set of a group there; most 
> will not even notive that the  collection names are the same as the 
> names for the package group.

Right.

Thanks for the feedback,

Richard.