On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:08 am, Robert Wideman wrote: > Dude, go take some morphine (or your favorite illegal drug) and space out > for a while. > > > > Rob
True..he's way out of line with that comment and that finally convinced me not to vote for the "old" rpmdrake in list of rpm's we want to find in 9.1. This yelling and sreaming does, sadly, take us away from the major point. The UI, not the underlying engine(s), are nuts. Let's remember what these 4 windows are doing. They are accessing funtionality in urpmi. (And no, I don't want to go back to the slower version.) These windows all access the same underlying engine(s). In normal UI design, given the above, it is normal practise to place all the functionality in a single window. Not 4..but 1. In O-O programming it ought to be a fairly trivial task to place all of these functions in a single, tabbed window. Even procedural programming, properly done, should allow for this. So I find the excuse that it can't be done to be nothing short of unbelieveable. And there have been times that I have had to have all 4 windows open at once, though not many. Often, though, it's at least 2. Incidentally it's times like this when I wish I was (a) retired or (b) independantly wealthy so that I could volunteer to write help files cause someone has to learn to do it. :-) One more, rather disturbing thing. I can close down, say, the Sources window and a minute or two later come back to open the Update window. Opening the secound window within something like a 120-160 secound time frame allows a user to open the second window without a challenge for the root password. IMHO this is not a good thing. That said..I'll go look at the cooker lists and say that this is my last comment on this subject. Have fun and happy computing! ttfn John
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