Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:26:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup testers wanted - again! Message-ID: <20011101212621.A6920@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1004666761 DOT 5402 DOT 4 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <20011101211143 DOT A6868 AT redhat DOT com> <1004667482 DOT 5402 DOT 15 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1004667482.5402.15.camel@lifelesswks> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:18:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:06:00PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >> >The can't access top most categories after collapsing a big category bug >> >has been fixed. >> > >> >Still on the TODO: >> >* src tickbox behaviour is non-intuitive >> >> This is not new behavior, though, is it? Isn't this the same as the >> "standard" version? > >It's a little different - things have diverged over time IIRC. In trying >to make it better I think we've added confusion. > >> >* wide descriptions get truncated. >> >> Is this due to the fact that there is no horizontal scrollbar? > >Possibly, in fact there is meant to be an automatic horizontal >scrollbar, which I think isn't being triggered now because of the size >change. A sufficiently long description should trigger it. I haven't >looked yet. It doesn't seem to. I reported this on cygwin-developers. >> There are a couple problems which I reported in cygwin-developers: >> >> 1) Unless you've made changes, the current dialog box doesn't >> work well with 640x480 screens. > >Yes, and that needs fixing. However I'm in favour of a resizeable >window, which is harder still :|. That's for sure. >> 2) There is a problem with on-disk installations. Sometimes the >> default selection is "Uninstall" when it shouldn't be. > >Can you tell me how to reproduce? You would ask. I think it happens when you've downloaded a new version of setup.ini but there is an old version of a package in your sandbox. It annoyed me enough that I recently updated my download sandbox, thinking that I'd get around to fixing things since I knew just what was causing the problem. Of course, now I can't duplicate it anymore. I did go as far as investigating the problem a while ago and came to the conclusion that the "state machine" that I introduced in recent versions of setup.exe was flawed. I think the reason it is flawed is that we're overloading the selection part of the process. But, I can't duplicate it now, as hard as I try. I thought that someone had mentioned this in cygwin-developers, though. I'll check. >>Chuck Wilson also reported problems. Have those been fixed? > >Nope, I've got his mail in my inbox still. My first set of goals is >usability - cause that's what tends to generate 1000's of emails. I thought that Chuck's concerns were usability, actually. It sounded like the buttons at the top of the screen weren't doing the right thing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/