Add an option to 'delete cached package files older than' or 'limit the package cache to'

Though, to avoid redundancy, if "show package properties in the main window" is checked, there's no longer any need for "Properties" to appear when you right-click a package and so it shouldn't be offered.

Another feature I just thought of that would be nice to see; 'gnome-app-install' aims to be a "pretty" alternative to Synaptic for more novice users; if you click its "Advanced" button, it closes and runs Synaptic. Unfortunately, while you gain Synaptic's additional features, you loose gnome-app-install's program icons, which are an excellent visual reference. Might it be possible to let Synaptic use gnome-app-install's icons in the same way? (e.g. on the package line and also in the description, with options in Prefereces to turn them on or off independently of each other)

If it is, it would also be good to turn this on by default when someone runs Synaptic by clicking the "Advanced" button in gnome-app-install though it should be off by default otherwise.

I am going to remove the advanced button at all. It creates only a mess: click on the button, g-a-i disapears immediatly, wait, screen fades out, enter your password and then you get synaptic.

a package can provide several apps and so several icons. this cannot be done in a sane way.

I've thought about it a bit more and I think that if g-a-i just displays the package name I could live with that (so I filed Bug #55478), thus I withdraw my request for the feature dated 2006-06-23 (however the 2006-05-19 ones still make sense to me :)

You should file requests like these as separate bugs, for the following two reasons: At least one of your requests is a duplicate, but because they're all in one bug, it can't be marked as such. Also, as a user trying to make sure I don't file a duplicate, your bug subject is useless to me, and I am forced to open your bug and read all of the requests.

I forgot to mention, bug 18683 is the duplicate I was referring to.

Simon Ruggier: your concerns are indeed valid, thanks; I will split the bug.

Unless I am mistaken, the first two points I made:

- when you right-click a package, all the options available if you were to select "Package" from the menu should be available (e.g. "Download Changelog" is not currently available)

- when you right-click a package and select Properties (or if you go Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance and check "show package properties in the main window"), it would be nice if one of the tabs was "Changelog" and clicking it would automatically download the changelog for the package.

are also covered by bug 18683, so I will remove them from this one :)

namely 'delete cached package files older than' with an option to set a number of days or 'limit the package cache to' with an option to set a number of MB.