Am Sonntag, den 14.10.2007, 08:27 -0400 schrieb James Tremblay:
This is a very cool suggestion and I would like it if we persued something along this nature, I believe it has already been established that displaying Icons for software not yet installed would be very difficult. This is way more than I suggested ,but I like it.
Nice that you liked it. :-) Recently I've found out that what Mac-users love so much on their computers is the perseverence of analogies: Their application installation might suck aus much as that of Linux, but the analogy is sane: They think of applications as physical objects that are actually at the place you've put them: they drag them to the application folder to install, they drag them from there to the trash to uninstall them. Now, we can't do that, I believe. But if users have come to think of their applications as 'the things in the app-browser' then they probably would consider it as natural that they also install and uninstall them in that familiar environment. And I agree you were very right in the respect that package-management should start with a 'pattern'-view. Here is my attempt at a mockup for that: http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=patternsmw1.png (Yeah, I know it's cheap to use a filter to get around drawing more...) Have a nice sunday! Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org