[packagekit] gpk-application user interaction

Tim Sarbin tim.sarbin at essialsolutions.net
Sat Aug 8 20:03:40 PDT 2009


http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3203/screenshotaddremovesoft.png

It shows this WITH "show latest" marked. But bug or no, this screen is
way too busy for casual users. The description is OK I guess, but the
version, architecture, and the Project/Group/Etc box is info that most
people just don't care about.

Ubuntu gets pretty close to what I imagine:
http://wlmtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/add_remove_apps.jpg

Though my concepts are a bit different still.


On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 21:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Tim
> Sarbin<tim.sarbin at essialsolutions.net> wrote:
> > Instead, I see a giant list of
> > packages (sometimes multiple entries of the same thing, but different
> > versions) with no real way to know what is what.
> 
> If you see multiple versions, it sounds like you may have gotten the
> 'only newest' filter unchecked by accident ?
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