Just want to point out four improvements of the YaST Qt package selector in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 that were missing too long, much requested (at least by me) and now added
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The first screenshot shows the new special package groups "Suggested packages" and "Recommended packages" to list packages which enhance your installed packages. Also the strange "zzz All" package group of previous releases is renamed to "All packages" and visible without endless scrolling.
On the second screenshot you can see the new "@System" meta repository to list all installed packages only. And note the new secondary filter "Unmaintained packages" to detect which packages are not contained in your activated repositories (also a nice way to detect which old packages were wrongly not obsoleted by a distro upgrade).
Update: Let me add a fifth one. As you can see on the screenshots we have a yast2-theme-openSUSE-Oxygen package with Oxygen style like icons everywhere thanks to Martin Schlander.


Child windows
A thing that really annoys me with the package manager in 10.3 is that it will open lots of windows to show a progress bar when it's refreshing repositories etc. I use KDE 4 with desktop effects and use the «Dim inactive» plugin to dim inactive windows.
This makes the screen blink like crazy when the package manager throws up several progress bar windows per second and is also sometimes annoying when doing window management on the same workspace.
Does this new version still have those issues? I would really like it if those progress bars could be a part of the main window, or at least be kept in one dialogue window.