Bugzilla – Bug 156582
package installation screen listview problems
Last modified: 2006-03-15 14:30:33 UTC
I noticed two minor usability problem in the installation packages screen, i.e. the one where I can see every package as it's installed. 1) I chose NFS as install source. It nevertheless prints two lines for each pacakge, namely Downloading xyz (XY MB) xyz-123 (AB MB) although there is not actual download step involved for NFS. I would guess that it might make a bit more sense with a ftp or http install, but even there it could perhaps be merged into one line per package? 2) The listview scrolls to the end on each output line, hence I can't really scroll up to read what was written in the past when it's still installing more packages. Only minor things, but something to perhaps care about.
1.) Already fixed in Beta8 :) (sorry, but I cannot provide related bugreport ID) 2.) You're right, but that seems to be a feture of Qt installation rather than a bug. sh: if you want/can provide some additional information? Thanks
Then this isn't RESOLVED FIXED, yet, as it is only partly so (thanks for that btw). Instead of creating a new bug report about just the second problem, I'll reopen this one, and set it to NEEDINFO on Stefan.
See also that other bug by rguenther where I answered the same question. The purpose of this widget is to scroll. If it stops scrolling at the first hint of any user interaction, there is no more feedback. If you want to keep reading, simply grab the scrollbar handle.
Hmm, not possible with the keyboard :-/ My wish also wasn't to stop scrolling "at the first hint of user interaction", but specifically when the user scrolled up. Like in konsole, where the behaviour also is much better than the xterm behaviour (where it moves down immediately as soon as something is printed).