Two more things I just noticed:
(a) Running "update" fails with the message
"/usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp not found" I looked and, sure enough, there is
no /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp. But there wasn't before and apt worked just
fine. Where can I get it?
(b) I finally figured out how those mysterious columns to the left work.
They're toggles, right? Toggle [D]elete on/off, [K]eep on/off, etc. But
why toggles? I was trying to click on the K column to set my packages which
I accidentally tried to [D]elete back to [K]eep. I had to click on Delete.
I can't see any case where I would want to have a package set for two states
simultaneously, and I don't think Apt will let me. I reiterate my earlier
suggestion: please, please, if you do nothing else, _represent state changes
with a set of radio buttons_. The current system is entirely broken. I
suggest maybe putting the buttons _below_ the tabbed
Description/Related/Special/Other area. (incidentally, all those tabs
except Description are empty)
Do something about this though, it's the most fundamental operation in
a package manager and is unnecesarily complicated by gnome-apt's current
UI design.
I love the Debian package system, and I don't want gnome-apt to become
another dselect. Please go over the entire UI several times :-) It's
functional but it could be usable as well with a little work.
Daniel
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