https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239
User sh@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239#c16
--- Comment #16 from Stefan Hundhammer
In particular, the disk usage variation is (in some sense) already shown by yast, but it is so hidden and not evident that after more that two years of openSUSE usage, I discovered it only because Ladislav told me that it is present.
Eh - it was always there, clearly visible in the bottom left corner of the package selector (or in the bottom right corner of the pattern selector). It is only hidden since 11.0.
The proposed ways to show these informations are: - a popup triggered when Installation Summary is chosen
This is when a popup would be most inconvenient. Switching to another view should never trigger something unrelated that requires additional actions to get rid of. Just picture the situation: You swtich to the "Installation Summary" filter view, and the first thing you see is a popup with disk usage information. But this is not what you came here to see; you wanted to see the installation summary. So the first thing you have to do is to close that popup dialog. Later, when you might really be interested in that information, you'd have to figure out how to get it (i.e. how to open that popup). Bad idea.
- a popup triggered when Accept button is pushed
You do get a disk space warning popup upon "Accept" if you are running out of disk space. But of course that should be the exceptional case; you have been warned before (you get the same disk space warning popup when you do something that makes you run out of disk space). This is just another confirmation. Open another popup by default upon "Accept"? Yet another one? We already have - Dependency problems (if there are any) - Disk space warning (if you run out of disk space) - Automatic changes (packages you got to satisfy dependencies) - Licenses (one popup for each license you need to accept) Even more popups? Most users complain even now about the number of popups at that point. We try to reduce that number, not introduce new ones.
- a popup activated by a new button
There is no screen space for any new button. And it's already very complex; we try to reduce complexity here, not add new stuff.
- add them somewhere on the interface
"Somewhere"? We'd need a three-dimensional screen for all the things we could add... ;-)
- a popup activated by a menu item
A menu item would be the _only_ place to add anything like that.
- integrate them inside the already available box in the bottom left corner, even if they are logically different informations
..whereupon I could be certain to receive a dozen bug reports that unrelated stuff should not be mixed together... been there, done that... ;-) The only thing I could imagine would be to add another column to that disk usage widget. Naming it would be quite difficult, though; I am pretty sure there would be complaints if we used something that is obvious only to people with a technical university degree (like "Delta"). I am not even sure if we have the data available.
A common objection for the first two proposals is that automatic popups are not loved (and personally I agree with this objection)
They are not only not loved, there is outright hatred for them. If anybody has a patch to do it like suggested above (add another column to the disk usage display), I will gladly apply it. But then, it would not help one bit if that entire disk space display remains hidden. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.