On 25 October 2010 20:26, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/10/25 Wayne Sallee <[email protected]>: >> Marc Paré wrote on 10/25/2010 12:31 AM: >>> >>> BTW, in my opinion, the default GUI setting in the MCC was not a right >>> choice. >>> >> Yes, that most definitely needs to be fixed. > > +100 ! > > That was asked for many times in the past. > We even have it on the list for user's first steps after installation: > "Change view in rpmdrake to 'All' otherwise you will not find all > packages you are looking for." Time to change the default. >
Well, misc had a point of view that's valid IMHO; you see, a user (especially a new one) doesn't really need to see lib packages, and there're more lib packages than main packages from any src.rpm :) So having it set to "All" when a user searches for something will give him a lot of results that he probably doesn't care about (e.g. searching for amarok, he just wants the main package not the lib or -scripts or -utils ones... etc). So the whole "Packages with GUI" is good in principal but the implementation needs a bit of fine tuning. Michael proposed to leave it as "Packages with GUI" _but_ to offer a way to notify the user "hey, there're more search results, click here to see them" or something like that. That's a good solution IMO. P.S. yes, I too can't count how many times "Packages with GUI" was posted in the forum, especially to new/unsuspecting users. -- Ahmad Samir
