[packagekit] Multiple Package installation UI

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Fri May 16 06:12:09 PDT 2008


The FAQ said you should post to this list if you have an idea for how 
the UI should work for installing multiple packages at once. I have such 
an idea.

My idea involves more changes to yum or whatever is running beneath 
package kit than package kit itself.

It would work like this:

1) When the user clicks a package, it begins installing immediately (as 
it does now).
2) The user can still browse for more packages while the package is 
downloading (this is the major change: write operations shouldn't block 
read only operations in the underlying package manager).
3) When the user clicks another package, it gets added to the task queue

--CJD



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