https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239
User andrea.turrini@gmail.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239#c15
--- Comment #15 from Andrea Turrini 2008-06-17 06:25:36 MDT ---
Hi Stefan,
reading your comment, I'm not sure to be been enough clear about what I and the
other commentators (robertmann and andrea martin) propose.
In particular, we would have a graphical way to know the exact (or at least a
quite good approximation of) variation of the disk usage before the actually
install/update/remove packages using yast2, in a similar way of the textual
information provided by zypper. Not the current absolute disk usage, that is
already provided and now hidden by default in openSUSE 11.
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.
As I told in previous comments, I'm still using openSUSE 10.3 so I can not
verify what yast2 shows in openSUSE 11.
So, our proposal is to integrate informations already provided about the
absolute disk usage with a more explicit information about the disk usage
variation.
The proposed ways to show these informations are:
- a popup triggered when Installation Summary is chosen
- a popup triggered when Accept button is pushed
- a popup activated by a new button
- add them somewhere on the interface
- a popup activated by a menu item
- integrate them inside the already available box in the bottom left corner,
even if they are logically different informations
A common objection for the first two proposals is that automatic popups are not
loved (and personally I agree with this objection) while an objection about the
third proposal is that adding another button to the yast2 interface can make it
heavier than now. The same objection applies to the forth proposal.
On the contrary, I see no possible objections about the fifth and the sixth
proposals. In fact: the actual yast2 interface remains unchanged (except for a
new menu item, but it is shown only when such menu is opened); if someone does
not want to see absolute disk usage and disk usage modification then (s)he does
not have them; if someone wants such informations then (s)he has a way to
obtain them.
The only possible objection to this proposal is that someone can say: "I always
want to be warned about disk usage modification!" Possible answers could be: I
don't care about your objection, popup are usually not loved; or You have a way
to obtain such information.
Concluding, our proposal is not in contrast with the community decision to hide
by default disk usage box but it can be integrated inside yast2 modules in such
a way it can make happy everybody.
I hope you can reconsider your decision about to will not fix such proposal
after my precisations.
Andrea
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