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September 30, 2007
22:50
So the guys and gals have been busy with openSUSE 10.3 creating a native GTk interface for YaST, much applause deserved as it is pretty good and fits in beautifully with the rest of Gnome. The only problem I've had is the fact that the package management GUI is so different to previous versions, that I struggled to use it.


It wasn't that it was bad or anything, it's just the change was pretty much all of a sudden. For a distro that does so much usability testing I would have thought this would have been picked up on, but maybe it's just me :-)

Anyhoos thanks to benJIman I was able to get the GUI that I'm used to. I have installed 10.3 on three machines which all get used quite a bit, so I will be using the new GTK interface as well as the traditional QT one. IMHO it would be a shame not to use it as they spent so much time developing it, I fully intend to reverting to the GTK interface just not straight off. The steps taken to get the familiar UI back were:
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