Bug 12366

Summary:	Usability issues with rpmdrake in 'all packages' mode
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	dave pickles <mg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, richard.j.walker, stormi-mageia
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	rpmdrake-6.9-1.mga4	CVE:
Status comment:

Description dave pickles 2014-01-20 15:11:24 CET

Description of problem:

Regressions (compared with mga3) when using without group list, ie with 'view' and 'filter' dropdowns set to 'all'.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Tested multiple times on x64 VM.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. After first setting the dropdowns to 'all', the groups are still displayed in the left-hand window. It is necessary to open the 'view' menu, select 'all packages by group', then reselect 'all packages alphabetical' before the groups disappear and all packages are displayed in the right-hand window.

2. The package titles are shown in a very narrow column and are truncated to be unreadable. It is not possible to drag the column sizes to increase the width. However if one package is ticked (for installation or removal) the columns are then redrawn to a more reasonable width and can also be resized by dragging the column headings as expected.



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Sander Lepik 2014-01-20 15:13:19 CET

CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 dave pickles 2014-01-20 16:02:54 CET

The first issue may be related to this error which is shown 7 times when running rpmdrake from a terminal:

Use of uninitialized value $value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.1/Gtk3.pm line 545.

Maybe the radio buttons on the 'view' menu are not being initialised?

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-20 18:51:23 CET

1) that's not a bug, this is per design.
If you don't want to see the groups, you don't have to change the dropdown menus, but you've to select "all packages alphabetical"

2) I fail  to seethis

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 dave pickles 2014-01-20 19:23:00 CET

1) When running rpmdrake for the first time after installation, the 'all packages alphabetical' radio button on the View menu is already selected, however the program behaves as though the 'all packages by group' button was pressed. To see the alphabetical view it is necessary to select a different view then go back to 'all packages alphabetical'. This is why I wondered if there was an initialisation problem on first run.

2) OK maybe a quirk under Virtualbox on my system? Never mind..

Comment 4 Richard Walker 2014-03-19 11:23:04 CET

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #2)
I'm in the middle of finishing off a fresh MGA4 install (done yesterday) and can confirm both observations as valid. Furthermore, if the left hand "Catgegories" pane is set wide enough for comfortable reading, the package selection checkbox in the adjacent pane is hidden and unless you see it happen you get no indication that it is supposed to be present. It cannot be revealed without shrinking the "Catgeories" pane.

CC: (none) => richard.j.walker

Comment 5 Richard Walker 2014-03-19 11:26:14 CET

Additional info: I am referring to rpmdrake  6.10-1.mga4

Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 12:03:09 CEST

I can reproduce both bugs in Mageia 4 (Mageia 5 RC not tested)

As those are both different bugs, I'll open new bug reports for more clarity and close this one.

Comment 7 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 12:21:19 CEST

bug 15829 and bug 15830 created

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => stormi
Resolution: (none) => MOVED