[Synaptic-devel] address@hidden: Synaptic - wishlist]

[Michael Vogt]

Hi,

I just wanted to share this mail with you. Is there actually anyone
of you using/testing synaptic on this kind of hardware? Is synaptic
significant slower than stock apt-get when initializing or building
it's dependency tree?

Gustavo, can we actually cache anything in the dependency tree? 

bye,
 Michael

----- Forwarded message from Nicholas Hanson <address@hidden> -----

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:16:37 -0500
From: Nicholas Hanson <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Synaptic - wishlist

First let me say you have an excellent little app. I do however have a 
few suggestions/requests. The first few are for those of us with slow 
systems (I'm running a pre-MMX P166 w/ 64MB of RAM for example).

- Please investigate the possibility of caching the dependancy tree 
between sessions. It takes a very long time to build and if it hasn't 
changed it would be nice if the app could open faster. I don't know if 
there is some date available to compare the cache to to know if it's out 
of date but I think it might be worth looking into.

- Please don't rebuild the dependancy tree after an update has run if no 
new package lists were downloaded.

- Please add an option to disable the auto find as you type.

- Please make the default filter "upgradable" or allow the user to set 
it in preferences as the all packages tree takes a long time to build.

That's it for performance enhancements, the next is a bug?

- Programmed Changes = Queued Changes??? Why both filters?

And lastly some general suggestions:

- Please allow users to delete default filters and add an option to 
restore in prefs.

- Please add hyperlink support in package info for example:
        - On common tab hyperlink maintainers email address.
        - In package descriptions hyperlink urls that often exist for 
        packages homepage.

I only sent this email to you so please pass it on to whoever else is 
appropriate. Thank you for the awesome app.

Nick Hanson


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