On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:38:32AM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Very nice! I like! A lot! Thanks :) > Obligatory feature requests: > > a) User friendly "Wizard" mode. Similar to the auto update utility in > Windows.
Planed for the future. But I'm still collecting ideas how it should look like. I never used the auto update utility in windows so I can't comment here. But feel free to describe what you would like to see in wizard mode. > b) Handling of .deb files from Nautilus. Double clicking on a .deb file > and having it walk through the setup would be nice. There is already gdeb that can do this. I have not implement something like this in synaptic (you can't install local packages with synaptic) because apt does not support local installs. That means that I would have to call dpkg directly and I won't have dependency management. Installing local package A that depends on the not installed package B would lead to dpkg complaining about unmet dependencies. There is a apt bug open for this, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47379 for details. > c) Integration of the Gnome 2 Debconf front end. The user should never > see the console. I would actually suggest forcing the Debconf front end > to the Gnome 2 one before installing packages (keeping the existing > setting). This one is very tricky. I would love to hide the terminal output from the user (and in fact, we already do this if synaptic is build against apt-rpm). But with dpkg there are various problems. The output of dpkg is not easy to parse and it keeps asking about changed configuration files. It also lacks a progress indicator. The good news is that there are plans to add features to dpkg that makes it possible to embedd it in a friendly way :) thanks for your feedback, Michael -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo
