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 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
