On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 20:38, Davy Brion wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 04:24, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On May 8, 2004, Jason Knight <tuxpenguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I think it is seriously time to consider someone writing a yum > > > frontend that could be included with the standard fedora desktop. > > > > Err... In what sense is up2date not that? > > up2date was modified to support yum... a new GUI frontend that was > designed for yum will always be better than a solution which was just > modified to support yum. > > up2date is not bad, but for a newbie user it's not a good program. A new > fedora user can't use up2date to install new programs. Using the > "Add/Remove Applications" tool from the menu isn't very good either > because it doesn't support external repos plus i can imagine it would be > confusing for new users that they would need to use 2 completely > different tools to install software, and then to update their software. > > I agree with Jason Knight that a real GUI frontend for Yum should be > written. It should be able to use _every_ piece of functionality that > Yum offers, in a way that is easy for the user. It would definitely > make Fedora easier to use for new users. > I'd like to see the GUI frontend have the ability to be able to print the systems current package list. I think this would be a nice feature. Wolf
