Would it have a way to set HD layout as it’s today? I prefer the current look over the newly proposed that I find it overloaded and tight. It looks like KDE Discover, and each time I think about it, it cames to my mind the word “slowness”.
That is certainly a lot better looking in my opinion I personally do not like the old interface it’s definitely improvement
Probably not. Usually we don’t ship severall UIs for an app. I suppose you could always run an older version, but best would probably be voicing critizism that we can work with at this stage, so the ui becomes better for you aswell.
maybe an alternative package manager that still has the old style or something like what Debian used to have or maybe they still do I don’t know just in case someone has no choice but to work with a beige potato box of a pc with an even more of a potato internet connection something like no images no comments no frills just a description of the package and the name of it and a checkbox next to it that you would check if you want to install it or remove it
Something like synaptic but yes sort of like front-end and also have it where people can choose between the two different package managers when they first install the OS or to install it later through the HaikuDepo if they wanted to
I could write a front-end for pkgman easily enough in yab. But …
- I would wait for @BiPolar’s
--no-refreshswitch to leave nightly-land and reach the default installation. Probably in the next Beta, the way things are going. - I’d want to see what the New! Improved! HaikuDepot app actually ends up looking like. No point in writing a simpler version if the default one ends up without some of the more radical ideas floating around here.
Still, I’ll keep an eye out. Thanks for the suggestion.
2 Likes
Please, no frontens for cli tools, that is a really bugyy interface and not the way.
In any case, I don’t understand the reason for wanting to replace haikudepot on “lower end” hardware.
The changes I’ve implemented so far were like 20 lines of code, the biggest is just one call for B_HORIZONTAL and B_VERTICAL swapped.
Has anyone even tested this or is this just some vague “maybe it could be a problem”? I’ve never had problems with haikudepot on lower end hardware, and it seems wierd to try and make cuts to core OS functionality to try and make it run better on older hardware while at the same time the OS has just been getting even more performant even having even lower system requirements than before.
2 Likes
I would guess it’s one of the troublesome applications (alongside with keymap preferences) if you have a display resolution under 800x600. Some old cheap netbooks do
1 Like
7 posts were split to a new topic: Haiku on lower resolution screens
That is the best use case for yab, actually. It can really help to create sane defaults for cli tools where your command sprawls across a dozen lines, like, say, Image Magick.
In this case, though, pkgman is hardly the most complex cli tool.
1 Like
It’s not a yab problem, but a problem of the command line interface beeing really bad. There is basically no way to work safely with it, so rather not do it.
If you want to work with packages in yab there should be a better way to expose the package kit functionality.