Re: [Synaptic-devel] Patch: Use candidatever package info for section, summary etc

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Michael Vogt wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:00:55PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > There are actually quite a many places where synaptic shows information 
> > > on 
> > > whatever it happens to be first in VersionList which isn't necessarily 
> > > correct, at least the following use "random" version for the information 
> > > (from rpackage.cc):
> > > - section
> > > - summary
> > > - maintainer
> > > - priority
> > > - description
> > > 
> > > Fixing would be quite trivial..
> > 
> > And here goes the patch, Dag says it actually even works :)
> 
> Great, thanks a lot to both of you!

Be sure to use the latest patch I sent here if you apply it, the first one 
had an embarrassing typo in it :)

> 
> The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if we should have
> two tabs in the information area. One for the installed package and
> one for the canidate version. But I'm not sure if it will not confuse
> our users. Maybe a config option? 

An extra tab might be a bit much/confusing for the purpose since the info
normally doesn't change all that much. Perhaps a radio button (or View
menu option) to show either installed or candidate version info in the
current tabs?

        - Panu -