[issue264] Ksmart Tray

michael at Labix Tracker tracker at labix.org
Tue Dec 12 21:26:24 PST 2006


New submission from michael <michael1153 at gmail.com>:

BUG 1
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Ksmart tray has a bug in which, at least operating on SUSE 10.1, does not allow
the opening of Smart when "Open Smart" is chosen from the "right click" menu as
the mouse is hovered over the Ksmart icon.

BUG2
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Also, if a person clicks on the icon, the animation and all information
pertaining to new downloads disappears and stalemates at a plain icon.


Suggestions
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As far as suggestions go: 

1) could it be possible to simply make the icon, when clicked upon, open smart?
For some of us old SUSE users that were familiar with YOU, this could bring back
a warm fuzzy feeling I guess.

2) As most of us do not run as root, I am not sure if a "popup" root password
prompt would be needed after clicking on the icon since to start it, a root
session is already created basically. Meaning in short, having Smart run in read
only mode would be a step back on the idea of a clickable icon for smart to run.

3) A smart usergroup created to allow access to smart's features and then at the
point of install of packages, a prompt for root priveledges could be asserted
possibly.............(similar to Kpackage)

4) A more "standout" icon set for the Ksmarttray that instead of flashing at
you, changes icons/colors.

5) The allowance of the user's set theme to be used on the Smart application
itself rather than the root account (which for most of us, is pretty bland).
(all could be tied in I guess with a possible Smart usergroup that is created at
the point of install similar to options within the RUG command)

6) A themeable Smart package manager that would allow you to tailer the
background colors of the listed packages. (alt1, alt2 important, non important)
similar to snyaptic.
Having this used primarily on my KDE machine, and then having a Gnome theme come
trough as administrator, causes some ugly situations with colors, icons and
overall look. 

7) a friendlier flag system similar to YOU's "taboo & never install" system
complete with icons. I have flagged some packages such as my kernel primarily,
but once in a great while, it slips through the cracks which brings up another
suggestion actually..........

8) A save button for newly added data whether it repositories, changes to
configurations, package choices or refreshed sources. At times, I add a few
sources in, do an update, and something happens that causes Smart to basically
crash out and lose all of that newly entered data.

9) A log file that can be opened from Smart in case of a crash that details
information as to what package may have caused the crash. There are still times
where it begins the install process, and then it suddenly crashes out. This is
usually caused by a RPM header that is missing or something along those lines,
but to be able to pinpoint which package is causing the issue, and to be able to
remove it from being installed again would be nice. This comes into a bigger
focus and importance actually when "Upgrade All" and the packages happen to be
all KDE related. KDE is not to friendly with even one missing package and to
know which one didnt download correctly or is causing problems, can save a
massive headache on a hunch "that everything was installed correctly" reboot. :D

10) Keep up the great work as this project is/still has, the potential to become
the greatest package manager known to the Linux community.

Many thanks for a great product!

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messages: 1037
nosy: webx
priority: bug
project: smart
status: unread
title: Ksmart Tray

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