Re: [Synaptic-devel] Two interface issues (0.55-4)

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:40:45AM +0100, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
 
> over the last few days I noticed two slight flaws in synaptic:
> 
> Each day on starting the program I get the message that my package info  
> is older than 48 hours and that I should update it. Of course, as I run  
> sid I have just about every reason to reload the list daily -- it's  
> just that my list of packages shouldn't ever be much older than 24  
> hours, so the message isn't quite correct. :-)

Looks like a bug in synaptic. Do you do the updates with apt-get
update or do you use synaptic to do it? 
 
> The other thing, once I start downloading (either just the package  
> list, or the actual packages later on) the window has a fixed size.  
> Sometimes I'd just like to maximize the window so I can see on a glance  
> what servers synaptic has been downloading from already, or what new   
> (versions of) packages it already has downloaded. Using the scrollbars  
> of the window is an option, alas a rather inconvenient one.

This is fixed in the current development version in svn. If you click
into the expanded table, the table will no longer auto-scroll (this
was another request some time ago).

> Just for the record, I otherwise like the new interface -- especially  
> that I can turn on again the package properties in the main window!

Good to hear!

thanks,
 Michael

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