Computer Janitor UI changes

[Lars Wirzenius]

ma, 2009-08-17 kello 22:39 +0300, Marius Gedminas kirjoitti:
> When I run out of disk space and am looking for something to remove, I
> want to evaluate the possible option in order of decreasing size.  That
> works well if there's a list control with a size column that I can click
> on if I want to sort.  It doesn't work well if I have to click on every
> item in order to see its size.

I'll add an option to the View menu to sort by size.

However, a better tool for freeing disk space in a pinch is synaptic,
which will let you remove stuff that isn't considered cruft by the
janitor's heuristics.

> I hate replying to your email without actually seeing the new GUI.  The
> PPA has no version for Jaunty; and the version I tried to run from a bzr
> tree failed with
> 
>   AttributeError: 'Package' object has no attribute 'candidate'
> 
> which, I guess, means my python-apt bindings are too old.

Correct. The code is aimed at karmic, and people who want to have it
work on older releases need to do a backport of python-apt as well.

>   All I saw was
> three large empty areas---I wonder how that would look on a small netbook
> screen?

Should be easy enough for someone to make a netbook friendly version,
perhaps a variant of the GTK UI with tabs instead of adjacent lists. No
point in crippling the UI for bigger screens though: it is often a bad
idea to have one UI that works identically on every kind of screen.