Proposed changes to Package Management/Retriever grid

Hi,

Environment: Revo SVN (rev 5416);

Wishlist

JIRA: 966

Package Retriever

1. At the moment, it is a bit tedious looking for new packages to add/install. There is a lot of categories and folders to click through just to check for new packages. Is it possible to change the "Package Retriever" so that it is similar to the "Packages Management" grid? See the protoype below (for bigger image: right-click -> select view image [FF])



2. In the "Package Retriever" window, when no packages are selected and you click Finish, before the error window pops up, you briefly get the "please wait downloading" window. Is it possible to detect that no package has been selected and hence pop-up the error window directly?

Package Management

1. In the "Package Management" grid, the first column showing the name of the package is titled "signature". I am sure technically it means something but am thinking, would it be better to rename this to "package name" or something more descriptive?

2. Is it possible to have a universal "check for updates button" to simultaneously check for updated versions of installed packages (ala firefox addons’ update checker)..and maybe highlight packages that have updates? This would save right-clicking each package when checking for updates.

Many thanks
/k

Quote from: kongondo at Jul 17, 2009, 03:57 PM

Package Retriever
1. At the moment, it is a bit tedious looking for new packages to add/install. There is a lot of categories and folders to click through just to check for new packages. Is it possible to change the "Package Retriever" so that it is similar to the "Packages Management" grid? See the protoype below (for bigger image: right-click -> select view image [FF])

I don’t think this would work; as I stated in JIRA - this layout would get unmanageable when the Repository grows past anything with 20 packages. We probably will hit over a thousand packages, and doing just a dropdown list is not a good UI for such searching.

2. In the "Package Retriever" window, when no packages are selected and you click Finish, before the error window pops up, you briefly get the "please wait downloading" window. Is it possible to detect that no package has been selected and hence pop-up the error window directly?

Yes, I’ll look into it.

Package Management
1. In the "Package Management" grid, the first column showing the name of the package is titled "signature". I am sure technically it means something but am thinking, would it be better to rename this to "package name" or something more descriptive?

Yes, I’ll look into it.

2. Is it possible to have a universal "check for updates button" to simultaneously check for updated versions of installed packages (ala firefox addons’ update checker)..and maybe highlight packages that have updates? This would save right-clicking each package when checking for updates.

It might be possible, I’ll look into it. Might have to wait for 2.0.1, however, since this would introduce queueing issues - which updates first? How do we know when it’s done? etc...

Almost forgot - doing the Category in the grid also doesn’t work, because Packages can belong to multiple Categories (which are Tags on modxcms.com/extras).

Thx for the feedback Shaun

cheers/k

NP, some of the proposals have been added to SVN - r5445.