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package.el, a bug ? and a UX issue ?
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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package.el, a bug ? and a UX issue ? |
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Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:29:28 +0900 |
1) after filtering on marked packages, clearing the filter removes the marks
After packages-list is updated, using U marks the packages that can be upgraded
and a message that looks like this is displayed:
Packages marked for upgrading: 5
When I filter the list with package-menu-filter-marked (/ m) I get the marked
list of packages to upgrade.
When I clear the filter with package-menu-clear-filter (/ /) I go back to the
original list *but* all the marks for upgrading are gone: when I hit x
expecting to be able to install the marked packages, I get "No operations
specified"...
package-menu-clear-filter is defined as follows:
(defun package-menu-clear-filter ()
"Clear any filter currently applied to the \"*Packages*\" buffer."
(interactive nil package-menu-mode)
(package--ensure-package-menu-mode)
(package-menu--generate t t))
Even when I check package-menu--generate I don't see that it is supposed to
clear the marks, am I missing something ?
2) The upgrade messages are not very useful
So, the number of packages to upgrade is displayed.
This comes from package-menu--mark-upgrades-1 which has:
(message "Packages marked for upgrading: %d" (length upgrades))
"upgrades" contains a list of new packages including their new version number,
but we only have the length of it.
If I hit X now, I have the list of old packages with their old version number
and a "upgrade y or n" message that does not leave much room for details. The
old version number
So, I'm wondering if it would not be a better user experience to have the U
command above directly display the list of packages with
package-menu-filter-marked instead ?
That way, the user can still directly use X to proceed, or eventually go back
to the package list and add packages (that's, if the issue 1 above did not
exist).
Are the two points above reasonable issues to work on ?
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Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
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