Package management tools

[Eric Feliksik]

I like the idea of http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagementTools .

I have some comments:

1) It's cool to have a upgrade-notifier that notifies in systray

2) It's good to see an easier package-management tool, because I think 
synaptic is way too complex for simply adding programs; it shows 
libraries and other things a user doens't want to know about (they 
probably can be filtered out, but that doesn't happen now).

3) gnome-app-install currently looks weird at my installation:
	http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/1200348/pub/gnome-app-install.png
The top and bottom texts look selected, and below "system services" the 
screen is gray.

4) I now realise I have a lot to say about gnome-app-install's 
shortcomings, but it's probably in very heavy development... Is it 
useful to point to those shortcomings now, or should I wait till the 
development is a bit further on?

5) I think update-manager should display the number of megabytes that 
need to be downloaded (and maybe the extra amount of diskspace that will 
be used). It currently only shows the number of packages that's to be 
installed.

6) If I open update-manager from command-line, and close it with the 'x' 
  , the bash prompt doesn't return, and the program is still running. If 
I ctrl-C it, it shows:
<start of error>
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 326, in ?
     updatemanager.main()
   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 310, in main
     gtk.main()
KeyboardInterrupt
<end of error>
Closing with the "close" button works fine.
But probably point 4) goes for update-manager too?

7) Keep up the good work! Are the ideas for these apps documented 
somewhere, so I can help giving ideas, or are the plans in the heads of 
the developers, and should I wait till the programs are more mature?


Maybe more points later on!

Thanks,

Eric