Re: [Synaptic-devel] Testversion 1 for 0.53 available

[Leendert Meyer]

On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 01.08.2004, 20:28 +0200 schrieb Leendert Meyer:
> > On Sunday 01 August 2004 18:34, Michael Vogt wrote:

> > >  - GPG-Check button in Summary Window for RPM systems
> >
> > Works well. I like this one too.
>
> The disabling of the signature verification is actually a bad work
> around. The best would be to install and verify the correct GPG keys of
> the vendors.

Indeed. But until one has found and installed the key, this is quite handy!

> > >  - Properties of the package can optionally be shown in main window
> >
> > Hmmm, this probably needs a minimal size restriction. Some weird things
> > happen at the bottom if the size is shrunk to the smallest possible (i.e.
> > height=0), especially with the 'Common' tab. With 'weird things' I mean:
> > the statusbar at the bottom is disturbed or covered by other widgets.
>
> There are some problems in Glade, that we use to draw some windows. If
> we disallow to shrink parts of the window the application might hang up
> under some circumstances.

Disallow? Hmm, perhaps I was not clear enough? I meant restrict the height of 
the properties widget to a minimum.

> > The 'Common' tab needs a vertical scrollbar. All other tabs have one, and
> > it appears if needed, but not the 'Common' tab.
>
> Same as above. But scrolling native widgets is a bad decision - we
> haven't had the time (yet) to implement a text field in the common tab.

I suppose one needs to put the controls on a container widget, and provide 
that container widget with a vertical scrollbar...

> > In the 'Version' tab, the Text color appears as gray (not black). Is this
> > intended?
>
> This is already fixed in the current development tree, but I thought
> that this change would not be worth recompiling the packages.

Well... ;P

Cheers,

Leen