Philippe Coulonges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mercredi 03 Juillet 2002 13:18, Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit : > > > > New rpmdrake will change a lot, will be more easy, but the > > drawback is that some existing features will disappear, such as > > sorting by source and size. > > Argghh ! > Is it temporary ? Is it for performance reasons ? > Beside its destination for end-users which can't use a terminal, sorting and > searching easily is certainly the most useful feature in > rpmdrake.
Basically, my vision is that graphical tools are mostly useful for: - newbies - things you can't easily do in console If one maps the large number of functions of a console tool in a graphical tool, it costs a lot of time, is likely to not be used by a large number of people, and will cost for maintainance. That's why most "bleeding edge" things for installing packages, which are here in urpmi, doesn't necessarily need to be available in rpmdrake. Now, I agree that "searching" feature and displaying as a tree is one very nice things with GUI's (that matches the second category I listed upper); of course upcoming rpmdrake will support searching, it will even extend current tree displaying with a third tree mode: the good old tree "by rpm group", which is a great lack if you want, for example, to find "something to burn CD's" etc. Now, sorting by source, size or version is IMHO far less important, and I believe this is part of the slowness of the current multi column tree view. Regarding re-design and features richness, there is mainly the fact that current rpmdrake is far too complicated for newbies; so we have designed specs for new rpmdrake with in mind trying to not frighten newbies; it ended up with a simple interface (much like drakx step of selection of individual packages), drawback being that some options of current rpmdrake will not be supported anymore. I don't know if I will then write an "expert" version of it adding back the number of options you guys would like to reappear; at least, this is not in the specs :-). I know that some people will flame for the "regression" in features. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
