Hi all. This Weekend I gave Alpha7 a try, after reading Stephans workaround for the vmware-related bug. First of all I like the green theme for beeing colorful but unostentatious. Installation worked fine, just a black screen which was blinking with some boot-like messages while hardware-configuration made me a little unsecure. But maybe that had something to do with the missing networkadapter, I addded to the vmx while pausing the installation. And I had no Problems with the most annoying bug. hd was recognized after first and later reboots. I used a 10G growable virtual disk, split into files (IDE 0:1)with xp as host.
Clock is set to UTC. So the KDE clock does not show local time though in kontrolcenter Timezone is Berlin/Germany. Where should that behaviour be fixed? Then I wanted to test the softwaremanagement tools. Here I got opposed to some bugs or at least strange behaviour. 1. To me it´s not clear what's the concept of having two yast2-Modules doing nearly the same like "Additional Product Repositories" and "Software Repositories". If the new one should help new users, they have to find this one first. Maybe it just needs a better name. - And the order of the Icons in Yast2 Control Center -> Software seem quiet random to me in the moment.- For this purpose I like the solution of Kubuntu with an easy Installation Tool directly in the menu and the more powerful, less usable one in the system-undermenu. Anyway, at the moment the new Repo-Manager just did not add any repo when I tried. 2. After adding a factory repository (type:YAST) in the old "Software Repositories"-GUI I wanted to close the window, but it did not close. There were 3 minutes of busy mouse-cursor blinking before a popup message told me "Building repository * cache". The progress bar stays at 0% for 4 more minutes then changes for a minute to 12% then window disappears. It should be the first priority to inform the user about a lengthy operation, and not to leave him alone with a roaring fan and a nervous mouse arrow. 3. Software Management (yast2 sw_single): I'd like to have one permanent pop-up for all relevant messages during the start of sw_single. The blinking of dozens(?) of windows that I anyway can't read makes me nervous. I want the software to calm me down especially in case of error, and then give me some hint about what to do. "Warning: There was an error in repository initialization" doesn't meet that. I want to know which repo, ( what error,) and what I can do about it. By the way I like the new way to enable/disable a repo and to choose if it should be refreshed with the checkboxes. What do you like in the upcoming release? Also very good that its now possible to give humanreadable names for the repos. Not so good - its no more possible to just paste the whole url in one field. You have to have 'Server name' and 'Directory on Server'. What for? I would like it even more if I could change the visual order of the repos in this screen. Seeing forward to see opensuse10.3 with usable a.n.d. powerful Software-Management. cheers Peter Buschbacher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
