On Thursday 17 October 2002 20:49, Elliott Martin wrote: > I have put off writing this email for quite some time because of the > flak I'm sure to get, but here goes. > > rpmdrake has been driving me nuts for months now because of one > 'feature', that being the popup windows. [snip] > There are so many different ways to have the program behave that I have > to ask for it to be changed. Why not use a wizard style interface (thus > not telling me in a new window that everything worked)? That way it > could ask about all the bad signatures at once at the end instead of > halting the download until you come along to press, yes, install the > thing anyway. I know, there's --no-verify-rpm, but I do want to know, > but I'd like to be able to leave the room and come back when the > downloads are done. Full ACK. Another thing that annoys me about those popups: they seem not to set the appropriate window manager hints (WM_TRANSIAENT_FOR or what's it called) so that they will happily go to the background of rpmdrake's main window when clicking on the latter. So while you request those popups not to popup, I'd request that - if they do popup, I'd like a wizard approach as well - they please behave like modal windows should behave and keep staying in front of rpmdrake's main window (which does NOT mean stay in front of everything :-).
Regards, -Malte
