On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 8:00 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> This has gone on so long that I have forgotten the beginning. > >> What are the 4 > >> functions? Under 9.0, add software is among my most-used, > >> remove software > >> comes a good way behind that. What are the other two? > > Sources Manager and Mandrake Update. > Right. I can see why you would want to link Sources Manager (I don;t feel strongly myself, but I can see why others may), but I tend to think of Mandrake Update as something quite different. I wouldn't have a great problem with it being in there, but it doesn't seem quite so logically connected as the others.
> SM should be a menu in the main program, MU should be a generic option in > File>Update or something like that. Then should be the real > program...Package Manager. A tab for installed and one for installable > packages....like the MDK 8.2 version. ALSO, i hate going into the > Installer and being defaulted to Mandrake Choices. This should NOT even be > an option. It should be defaulted to ALL (alphabetical listing), then > Catagorized (a drop down menu for type of package, source repository, > update availability, group, size, selection state). > I agree about the Mandrake Choices default, it's really annoying. I would prefer that it remembered your last use, as for most of us it would automaticlly come up with the right choice 95% of times. I have wondered sometimes, though, whether it is always clear where you are going to get the update from. I think plf always indicate that in their name, (I don't know about others because I don't use them), but I'm often taken by surprise when I expect to be asked for a disk but find that it just goes ahead and installs, from which I presume it is downloading, but it didn't tell me so. I would just feel happier if there was some indication before it does it, whether in the way the list is organised, or by message, I don't mind. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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