[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/4] rhel: No need for full version in name

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> While this change may make sense on its own...
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 04:56:47PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> I'm proposing this change cause "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3" doesn't
>> fit in Boxes's collection view when we are showing a status line
>> ("installing" e.g): http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/boxes+rhel.png
>
> ... this is a very weak justification for this patch. It's just papering
> over a Boxes-specific issue. The shortened name may avoid the ellipsization
> seen in this screenshot, but only with the specific font/font
> metrics/translation/... you are using.

Its a more general issue: If we have way too long names, they
generally won't fit in UIs as UIs won't be expecting way too long
strings as *names* of OSs.

> Iirc this also makes it harder
> to make the difference between different RHEL versions in the ISO chooser
> widget.

I understand the need to have ISOs for various versions but I don't
see why most people would have ISOs for different minor versions of
RHEL? i-e if RHEL 6.3 is available to you, why would you want to have
6.2 as well? Not saying this doesn't happen but is this really common
enough to care too much about? Having said that, we probably need to
provide a way to differentiate between even the same media (e.g user
has same media on ISO and CDROM) and we have an bug for that:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685243

Perhaps showing the path somewhere (tooltip?) would be a solution? In
any case, lets discuss this issue of being able to differential media
that look the same in Boxes' wizard, on that bug.

As for the patch in question, this is the same as differentiating
between 'XP service pack 1' and 'XP service pack 2' so if we don't
want separate OS entries for those different XP upgrades, we probably
shouldn't have separate entries for different minor versions of RHEL
either.

We had some discussion(s) about differentiating various variants of
Windows OSs (professional, home etc) but you and I both agreed that
separate OS entries will be an overkill for that. I don't know if
there is as big a need to differentiate between various updates of the
same OS/variant though but if we do, separate OS entries is even more
an overkill there.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124