Hi Tim, > Martin, I am always open to suggestion to how to improve yumex, maybe > your should try the current version, and let me know what you don't > and how to improve it. > Sorry if I sounded too critical -- after all it's really been a long time since I tried yumex, and, after all, I seem to be more of a CLI guy when it comes to package management -- yumex didn't impress me (in the deep past), packagekit kept me interested for a while thanks to fancy updates, but I always fell back to just using yum... It seems that any hint of a UI either graphical or text (I recently tried some TUI on OpenSUSE and didn't like it one bit, same with debian about a year back) gets in my way no matter how complex, or simple it is.
Anyway, in the case I'd give it a spin then if I'd have some constructive critic (suggestions) by then, I'd definitely share it with you :) > click to install has recently been implemented in yumex. That's good to hear as that's the only case where I'm rather grateful that GUI package manager exists. > install missing codecs is not very useful, because most of it exists > outside fedora (rpmfusion), so most people has to go to rpmfusion.org > to install the repos, so they also > enter the one line yum command to install all the need gstreamer > codecs. It is not something you do every day. I hate to remember names of packages so I always used to do it in a way that I installed rpmfusion and then let the music/video players install the missing codecs on demand via PK. Though I'm not sure how much of them is actually able to do that -- I used preupgrade the last time and before then I was using rythmbox+totem+mplayer instead of quodlibet+parole+mplayer2... Anyway, the bottom line is, if the mentioned "killer" features of PK do not work on XFCE spin (sans rpmfusion installation) then having it there gives no added value and I don't have any issues with having yumex instead. Regards, Martin
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