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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c26a09b-d3d4-7091-0962-4c496dfa86e6@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPJ9Yc_-z3uGe0wDVnQ8124Z1iDsgLHwNE8yUMZzeL2QGa7gyg@mail.gmail.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-07 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-06 15:05 Jon Turney
2018-02-07  0:49 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-07 11:38   ` David Balažic
2018-02-07 11:51     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2018-02-20 12:42       ` Jon Turney
2018-02-08  1:16 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-08  6:45 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-02-08 14:01   ` Eric Blake
2018-02-08 15:17     ` Marco Atzeri

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