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On 07/02/2018 11:38, David Balažic wrote:
> On 7 February 2018 at 01:49, Steven Penny wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:04:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>> - 'Current' is replaced by 'Best' (which is slightly different in ways
>>> it's difficult to summarize briefly) and 'Sync' (which exposes the
>>> --force-current (distupgrade) option through the UI).
>>
>> i get the desire for one word labels - but im not sure how good
>> "sync" is. its not clear in the GUI what it does, and frankly, even
>> reading your description doesnt clear up for me what it does. i
>> guess i would need to run "--help" and see what "--force-current"
>> does to figure it out. that just seems like more work than it
>> should be.
>> 
>> This could be improved by having a tooltip on the GUI item, 
>> explaining in a sentence or two, what it does.

There already is a tooltip:

"Sets all packages to the version available from the package 
respository, downgrading if necessary."

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