Re: Gnome-apt hmm
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> Well, as far as I know Branden hasn't written any manpages, Ben isn't
> mentioned as doing the packages and I'm not mentioned at all. More
> things should probably be changes, but it's late and I can't think of
> anything else right now.
>
OK. I copied this out of the Apt AUTHORS file or something, so I hope no
one is offended.
> > Yes; my problem is that I don't like the way the dock works; the removed
> > window does not have the right characteristics (not resizable, in
> > particular). I am not going to rewrite a new dock widget just to fix this.
> > So maybe a Gtk 1.4 feature.
>
> Hmm. Anything we can do to pressure some people to implement this for a
> new gtk?
>
We can certainly suggest it. The other issue with the dock right now is
that it will draw a big handle all the way down one side of the undockable
widget (basically it will work just like the menu bar does). Yuck. A new
widget really is the right way to do it, but it's a non-trivial widget to
make it work nicely. Given the other items on the TODO list this has a
relatively bad effort/benefit ratio.
> Usually, yes. On a few occasions non-red text also wasn't clipped, but I
> couldn't find a quick way to reproduce this. I'll try again tomorrow.
>
Weird. This is almost certainly a bug in gtk_paint_string() in the default
Gtk theme. I don't see where my code can be screwing it up. On the other
hand, I looked at Gtk and I don't see where that code can be screwing it
up either. Hmm.
> > Can you think of any other options?
>
> Not at the moment, otherwise I'ld would have suggested them. I'll get
> back to you about that.
>
I tried radio buttons; I think they are a good bit nicer. Well, there are
two aspects: radio button behavior (showing more of the buttons,
basically) and radio button appearance. I just don't like the default Gtk
theme's radio button appearance, and they look especially bad on a white
background. I'll have to think about how to fix that.
> > Yes, the popup menu affects the selected package, not the package under
> > the pointer. You're saying the selection should be changed before popping
> > up the menu?
>
> Indeed.
>
I've just done this on my local copy. It works pretty well. I also added a
label to the top of the menu with the name of the current package.
> At this rate we're getting an awful lot of columns; I suggest we hide
> the download and installed size columns by default to remove clutter.
>
Agreed. I plan to hide Auto too, since the whole point is that it's Auto
and you don't have to do it yourself.
> > > * The sources dialog needs work
> >
> > Pester Jason, he invented the annoying-to-write-by-machine file format.
> > ;-)
>
> It looks quite easy to parse and write actually..
>
I've been assuming the problem is to not disrupt any comments and manual
formatting that might be in there. Clearly just spitting out the lines is
trivial.
Havoc
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