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Re: package.el, a bug ? and a UX issue ?
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
Re: package.el, a bug ? and a UX issue ? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:57:34 +0200 |
Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
> 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"...
Sounds like a bug to me.
> 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).
Makes sense to me. I'm not sure if we could do better than
package-menu-filter-marked, but perhaps that could be good for a
start.
> Are the two points above reasonable issues to work on ?
I think so, yes. Both sound like pretty obvious improvements, so
patches would be welcome.