YaST is pretty good. I normally run it from the CLI though. Did find one little catch the other day... I really don't like the split up Apache config files that SuSE uses, hard to find where to put stuff. Tried using YaST and it really mangled my virtualhost setup. Wasn't able to get YaST to do the vhost setup right, wasn't able to figure out the other changes I needed manually. So, I backup my vhost stuff, change things with YaST, then paste my vhosts back in

Just to be clear, I don't hate YasT!

I discoverd my problem was the suse servers (slow d/l of a large file ending with a disconnect) As to the abort probs., it is a strange quirk of Yast that it aborts AFTER the file has been d/l'ed. No matter how many times you push the button, you have to wait for the d/l to finish, don't know why. With me, the file couldn't compleat so i couldn't abort.

Nicola1013, sorry babe, your whining because on your first look you don't know which key opens which door!? So it took you 3 clicks to find what you need? OMG, somebody call my therapist!
Control Center is USER friendly with the option for ADMIN tasks. If you need to do multiple ADMIN tasks you use yast. If a user could add a user we'd be as secure as Windoz.

Somehow I doubt that your sys. hangs on adding new sources either. When i added guru and packmans site it took some time,(possibly 2 or more mins.) thats a whole lotta files to get info on. Your apparent lack of patience leads me to believe you thought it was hanging when it took more than 15 seconds.

Ok, i don't want to sound all bitchy, and i'm all about finding solutions to problems, I've had many and learned so much here as well as, hopefully, helping others. And i've had stupid questions and heard many more, but I just don't respond to petty whining very well. If tying your shoe-laces is so, hard buy yourself a pair of loafers.

True that it didn't technically hang, I added a bunch of sources at once, and I had no idea it was going to take a long time. When something goes on for five minutes and isn't doing anything as far as you can tell, and you can't abort or exit, you think it's hanging. I think the dialog says "One moment please." After letting it run a while I thought I had screwed something up, or maybe it was stuck and not doing anything, and so I tried to find a way to close out of it, but no go. Don't you think there should be some way to close out of it? It's not petty whining to expect an Abort button to abort and a close button to close.

I'm not retarded and don't think users should add users. I think it'd be nice if the Control Center listed the Yast modules with the others, with a slightly different description so you can compare and figure out quickly which one you want. For example, there's a "Peripherals" category with hardware such as Joystick, and then there's a "Hardware" category with Joystick. If the first one was "Hardware Preferences" and the second was "Hardware Configuration," I'd have a better idea where to go for what I wanted. If you went with Hardware Configuration, it could ask you for the root password, and then it could save the password for the other modules as long as the Control Center was open. I used to use Fedora Core and they had their little keys icon in the tray to indicate the root password was saved and you could make changes to different things without having to retype the password, and you could give up the keys at any time. I liked that. Also, the way it is now, you don't know what options are available in the Yast modules when you click on them, you have to enter the root password to see... it'd be nice if they'd list the options but gray them out, and then if you decide that's what you're looking for, you could click the admin button to edit. (They have something real close in "System Administration" -> "Login Manager", for example.)