On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 21:58, João Neto wrote:
>> The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
>
> This is a general point I'm making, not just about your email in particular.
>
> There appears to be a trend on this list where a random u
On 12 May 2010 21:58, João Neto wrote:
> The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
This is a general point I'm making, not just about your email in particular.
There appears to be a trend on this list where a random user just
posts an inflammatory email with "ACME SOFTWARE IS RUBBI
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 23:29:30 Chris Lumens wrote:
> > users do not need to find devel packages from the PackageKit GUI, we need
> > to search useful packages from here, that is my opinion...
>
> This line of thinking needs to stop. Developers are users, too, and
> development packages ending
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 23:24:13 Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Guido Grazioli wrote:
> > 2010/5/12 Rahul Sundaram :
> >> The search box has a icon on the left side which defaults to searching
> >> the name rather than description. It is probably too subtle to notice.
> >> I bet that is
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Subject: Re: PackageKit need to be more intelligent!
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Guido Grazioli wrote:
> 2010/5/12 Rahul Sundaram :
>> The search box has a icon on the left side which defaults to
>>
2010/5/12 Seth Vidal
> Seriously folks- try doing a 'yum search foo' before saying we cannot
> provide good search results.
>
I do not doubt that yum bring good results, but what you see as good
results?
For me and, I believe, the target audience of Fedora, "search for foo" would
need to bring
On Wed, 12 May 2010, David Malcolm wrote:
> I don't know if that's the issue, but this reminded me of this:
> http://www.secretgeek.net/ms_search.asp
>
> Implementing "search" is difficult. In a good implementation, the user
> shouldn't need to understand the schema of the underlying database
>
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 02:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 02:38 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I think we should have package kit use yum search
> > rather than yum list for the searching?
> >
> > I'll see if I can find out what's the story there.
>
> The search box has a
On 2010/5/12 Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Guido Grazioli wrote:
>> Having an additional option in that context menu, which makes the search
>> mimic the "applications" search implemented in latest pkgdb, would be
>> a very nice feature indeed.
>
> yum can search an additional keywords d
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:19 -0300, João Neto wrote:
>
>
> 2010/5/12 Michael Cronenworth
> Here on an F12 box I typed in "Gtalk" into the GUI search box
> and it
> found the same results that Seth found for you.
>
> PackageKit is too technical software, it must be more ea
> Those packages *are* useful to people, just not the people you
have in mind.
the same way rawhide is useful for some people too but it is disabled by default
I guess the right way is to have a filter as a combo box applications,
docs or devel+sources
or at least some visual indication [ color
> users do not need to find devel packages from the PackageKit GUI, we need to
> search useful packages from here, that is my opinion...
This line of thinking needs to stop. Developers are users, too, and
development packages ending up in the search results is not such a bad
thing. Those package
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Guido Grazioli wrote:
2010/5/12 Rahul Sundaram :
The search box has a icon on the left side which defaults to searching
the name rather than description. It is probably too subtle to notice.
I bet that is the problem here.
Rahul
Having an additional option in that con
On 12/05/10 22:14, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 02:38 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I think we should have package kit use yum search
>> rather than yum list for the searching?
>>
>> I'll see if I can find out what's the story there.
>
> The search box has a icon on the left side w
2010/5/12 Michael Cronenworth
> Here on an F12 box I typed in "Gtalk" into the GUI search box and it
> found the same results that Seth found for you.
>
PackageKit is too technical software, it must be more easy to the Comum
user!
The relevant packages must be: OpenOffice, Koffice, KdeGames, Ki
2010/5/12 Rahul Sundaram :
> The search box has a icon on the left side which defaults to searching
> the name rather than description. It is probably too subtle to notice.
> I bet that is the problem here.
>
> Rahul
Having an additional option in that context menu, which makes the search
mimic t
On 12/05/10 21:58, João Neto wrote:
> The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
>
> When the user will get a package like this:
>
> Serch by: Latex Editor (None)
--snip--
If you click on the magnify glass icon
change to search by description.
Then you will find the other programs.
On 05/13/2010 02:38 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I think we should have package kit use yum search
> rather than yum list for the searching?
>
> I'll see if I can find out what's the story there.
The search box has a icon on the left side which defaults to searching
the name rather than descrip
2010/5/12 Seth Vidal
>
> I think we should have package kit use yum search
> rather than yum list for the searching?
The search result of PackageKit is not broken!
my article was to raise discussion on the ease of use in the search ...
When I search for "Twitter" I need relevant results, as Gwit
João Neto wrote:
> The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
>
> When the user will get a package like this:
>
>
> Serch by: Gtalk
> - Nothing!
>
What are you using to search? The GUI Add/Remove Software app or
something else?
Here on an F12 box I typed in "Gtalk" into the GUI sea
On Wed, 12 May 2010, João Neto wrote:
The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
When the user will get a package like this:
Not sure what package kit is doing but just for fun try:
yum search Latex Editor | less
I get a number of replies.
the ones at the top are better.
The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ...
When the user will get a package like this:
Serch by: Latex Editor (None)
Serch by: PHP IDE (Nothing)
Serch by: Twitter
- Devel packages
- Python packages
- No twitter CLIENTS appear in search!
Serch by: Gtalk
- Nothing!
Serch by: Msn
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