> I quite like the look of the QT version of YaST. It certainly a much > closer match to the console version, which is something I find myself > using more than the GUI version.
Therein stands my point. The CLI version and the QT version are close enough in layout and style to be effectively the same. Walking through one or the other, you are in familiar territory. Then you fire up Gnome expecting consistent tools... and you're faced with that dogs breakfast mess of YAST. There is ZERO consistency. That is plain dumb. Consistency is critical in the interfaces that make SUSE stand out. > >Since you expressed your feelings about it, my advice is dont use the > >yast gtk version for the sw_single module and dont use gnome. That way > >you will never see it again, only the qt version, which I think will > >solve your problems, mostly. Fine, but... Gnome is as much a part of openSUSE as KDE is. I think that even though I choose to use KDE at home (I have to use Gnome at work), I have a responsibility to at least be familiar with Gnome as Novell packages it. When things looks stupider than usual in Gnome I also think I should speak up... and YAST in 10.3 is really poor. It is a regression... a step backwards in usability... then again... that's par for the course for anything Gnome.... so I guess it's to be expected. Still... I am quite disappointed in where "we" are taking Gnome in openSUSE. This new YAST is not an improvement... fine, base it on GTK.. I don't mind, but for God's sake, do some usability testing... and put some thought into the fact that change for the sake of change is wrong. And making the software installer so radically different between KDE and Gnome makes my job supporting openSUSE a total nightmare. I used to be able to walk the users through things like the software management part without having to worry about whether they liked Gnome or KDE, or were stuck with the text version of YAST... it was all basically the same. Now? Now, it's a mess. A real mess. I even tried the various other views... and they were worse than the default flat view. Basically... I'd like to smack someone and ask "What were you thinking???" :-( C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
