Description of problem: Great product, but it could use some small touch ups to make it seem really professional. For one thing, it would be cool if you used the notification area for updates and stuff so that I don't have to use up two slots of my window bar. It would be further cool if the little icon then popped up and told me when things were done or if errors occured or whatever. Second, I think it would be nice if the program told me how far I was into installing/updating/removing whatever. If I'm updating 60 apps, I would like to at least know how far into it I am. Also, if you've ever updated an iPod with iTunes, then you may have noticed that it checks off which ones still need work and which ones are updated, so again, you know how far in you are. Third, it would be great if when you resize things on the interface, it would apply that to all the various windows that are accessed by the side tabs, like if I changed the height of the bottom segment, that would change for all the various screens of the program, or if I changed the width of the info fields on the update screen (description, name, repo, etc) it would be nice if they also changed to the same amount on the install window. Aside form that, great program, and 10x better than what RedHat gives us to update our gear. Synaptic always made me jealous, so this is a real relief. Great work, and thanks. I'm kind of nitpicking I know, but this thing is near perfect and I'd like to see it get to utter perfection.
Just a note that libnotify will land up in the development tree soonish so you might want to use that for providing notifications.
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > > Great product, but it could use some small touch ups to make it seem really > professional. For one thing, it would be cool if you used the notification area > for updates and stuff so that I don't have to use up two slots of my window bar. check out the latest devel edition og yumex http://linux.rasmil.dk/dnl/yumex-devel I have made some changes to the dialogs, progress dialog has been integrated in the main gui window. > It would be further cool if the little icon then popped up and told me when > things were done or if errors occured or whatever. > Nice idea, i will try to figure something out > Second, I think it would be nice if the program told me how far I was into > installing/updating/removing whatever. If I'm updating 60 apps, I would like to > at least know how far into it I am. Also, if you've ever updated an iPod with > iTunes, then you may have noticed that it checks off which ones still need work > and which ones are updated, so again, you know how far in you are. > I will put it my todo list. > Third, it would be great if when you resize things on the interface, it would > apply that to all the various windows that are accessed by the side tabs, like > if I changed the height of the bottom segment, that would change for all the > various screens of the program, or if I changed the width of the info fields on > the update screen (description, name, repo, etc) it would be nice if they also > changed to the same amount on the install window. > I will put this on my todo list too. > Aside form that, great program, and 10x better than what RedHat gives us to > update our gear. Synaptic always made me jealous, so this is a real relief. > Great work, and thanks. I'm kind of nitpicking I know, but this thing is near > perfect and I'd like to see it get to utter perfection. Thanks a lot for the feedback, it that kind of feedback i need to make yumex better.
(In reply to comment #1) > > Just a note that libnotify will land up in the development tree soonish so you > might want to use that for providing notifications. I did a little googling on 'libnotify', i dont find a lot, but i sound nice, hope there will be python wrapper for libnotify.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > > > Just a note that libnotify will land up in the development tree soonish so you > > might want to use that for providing notifications. > > I did a little googling on 'libnotify', i dont find a lot, but i sound nice, > hope there will be python wrapper for libnotify. > > libnotify and notify-daemon are in the current development tree. Project page is http://www.galago-project.org/about.php. For python bindings post to the fedora-devel list
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > > Great product, but it could use some small touch ups to make it seem really > professional. For one thing, it would be cool if you used the notification area > for updates and stuff so that I don't have to use up two slots of my window bar. I have tried to used notification by using libnotify/notification daemon, but it dont work because yumex is running as root, and you can send notification from root to the normal users notification queue :-( I the current development release all dialogs, are looked to the parrent window, so the will only take one slot in the windowbar, and it will flash when a dialog pops up. > Second, I think it would be nice if the program told me how far I was into > installing/updating/removing whatever. If I'm updating 60 apps, I would like to > at least know how far into it I am. Also, if you've ever updated an iPod with > iTunes, then you may have noticed that it checks off which ones still need work > and which ones are updated, so again, you know how far in you are. > The current development release has now a total progressbar, so you can se how much of the operation there is completted. > Third, it would be great if when you resize things on the interface, it would > apply that to all the various windows that are accessed by the side tabs, like > if I changed the height of the bottom segment, that would change for all the > various screens of the program, or if I changed the width of the info fields on > the update screen (description, name, repo, etc) it would be nice if they also > changed to the same amount on the install window. > The update,install,remove is now shown in the same view, so position of the resize bar is the same.