Bug 469919

Summary: YaST2 Software Management (Package list - grid component) is not very user friendly - version number column is too narrow
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: m k <kvas11>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Thomas Göttlicher <tgoettlicher>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: tgoettlicher
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Attachments: yast window screenshot

Description m k 2009-01-27 20:21:13 UTC
Created attachment 268076 [details]
yast window screenshot

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-0.1 Firefox/3.0.5

Could you make grid component in package list more user friendly, please? Only last column is expanding during resizing the yast window. But this column contains package size only (it does need to be very wide) - I suggest to switch size and installed version columns. It would be more comfortable for user to see full version number, instead of some incomplete information.  - please see attached screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run Yast
2. in the Software menu(group or "tab") click on the Software Management
3. type kde or kde4 (or something) into Search input field
4. click on the search button
Actual Results:  
You get search result, some of the packages are available in the newer version than installed but "installed version" column is to narrow.

When the user resize that column manually it does not remember the width during the next search. It is very annoying. 

Expected Results:  
"installed version" column should be more wider, minimally 2 times wider than default width or move it at the last position, then that column will be wider during resizing the window - that is enough for me:)
Comment 1 Thomas Göttlicher 2009-02-24 13:55:06 UTC
This is a duplicate of bug 441828 which is about improving column widths in the package list.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441828 ***