Version: 0.4.0 (using KDE 4.2.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Fedora RPMs It would be helpful if lists of packages and lists of repositories could be sorted alphabetically by name. This would group similar packages and repositories together visually, making them easier to work with.
The package sorting is already available in 0.4.0, i'll try to add it to repositories view in 0.4.1 too. Thanks, Daniel.
(In reply to comment #1) > The package sorting is already available in 0.4.0 I was not able to get it to work - how is it supposed to work?
hmm well the updates ui might not have it, but i'm pretty sure there is a header named "packages" which can do sorting...
The package header works once you discover it. But would it make sense if sorting was done by default?
Well actually it makes sense for your backend to give us the sorted list as I do in AptCC, It's much faster to do that in the backend. I'd ask you to complain to your distribution backend. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #5) > Well actually it makes sense for your backend to give us the sorted list > as I do in AptCC, It's much faster to do that in the backend. > I'd ask you to complain to your distribution backend. > Thanks. I'm sorry, but that's completely wrong. There's no way the backend can know whether the user is sorting by package name, summary text or even package size. There is no guarantee in the API that there is any sorting applied, except that installed packages should come first.
Richard, i know there is no such guarantee, but imo it would be better to sort by package name right on the backend. gpk works much better when aptcc emits sorted packages, because gpk doesn't need to keep changing the package order. After all packages are there the user can sort packages. Imo sorting the packages while they are arriving makes the ui too weird.
Would it be possible to at least sort by the last applied sort option? Right now the gui is confusing since the sort triange at the 'package' header indicating the sort direction is always there but the packages appear unsorted after a search. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kpackagekit/+bug/440610
Thanks for the bug report KPackageKit 0.6.1 does dynamically sort the packages and updates, and the Origns List is also sortable, commit in: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1165325