Hi!

Thanks for the report!

Dňa St 8. August 2007 02:01 Peter Buschbacher napísal:
> 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.

Yes, this is due to graphics card detection.

> 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". 

The new label says "Community repositories". Is it better?

> 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.-

That's something we might look into. Please, open a bug report.

> 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.

I don't understand. What do you mean by "new Repo-Manager"?

>
> 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.

The missing progress issue is fixed in FACTORY now.

>
> 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.

I suggest to open bug reports for those 2 issues.

>
>
> By the way I like the new way to enable/disable a repo and to choose if
> it should be refreshed with the checkboxes.

Glad to hear.

> 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.

If you want just past a URL, choose Add -> URL

Stano

> Seeing forward to see opensuse10.3 with usable a.n.d. powerful
> Software-Management.
>
> cheers
> Peter Buschbacher
>
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