https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398724
User bluedzins@wp.pl added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398724#c5
--- Comment #5 from Maciej Pilichowski
so user cannot tell at all what will happen Huh? So you only look at icons and don't read the text beside that icon?
Icon should be not used as dead-decoration. Icon should bring information, if it is only eye candy then it could be dropped.
a) update and update uncod. perform two _different_ actions, yet, they share the same icon, They use the same icon because that status is what the affected packages will end up with. Is that so difficult to understand?
ONE ICON = ONE MEANING! No matter if it is yast, openoffice, or Quake. Go read some UI books if you can't understand that simple principle. DO NOT REUSE SYMBOLS!
2) to force yast to reinstall package to specific version is a struggle (currently)
All it takes is one single mouse click. Please explain how this is a struggle.
No, it does not take one click -- I already tested it. When you want to downgrade, the status of the icon is changed to update. But all it will do is "refresh". Example: Package A. Version 10.0. Installed. I click on version 9.0. Status -> update. So I confirm. Yast downloads package, updates it. I check the version 10.0. You have to update uncond. if you want to downgrade and this is a flaw, because if I update some packages, and update uncod. some others, soon enough I will not know what I am doing because I am flood with the _same_ icons. And check the yast -- there are no tooltips (report closed), user can only rely on status. And status is exactly the same. This is what you call user-friendly UI? Because for me it is a struggle. Oh, and one minor thing:
I repeat: Please read the documentation.
There is none. Check it for yourself. ======================================================================== UI FLAWS: * icon is reused * user set an action, yast resets it to another action * user apply an action, other action is performed * some items are available for single packages, some only for list of packages -- now user has to find out how to filter out interesting packages to apply list-only actions -- 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.