Hi, Volker Kuhlmann schrieb:
Also previously there was a selection field for "show all available patches", "show all installable patches" and "show appliccable patches only", or something to that effect. I think that was a very good idea.
Good proposal... I'm currently thinking a bit about how to improve the UI here. Actually I think that different colours and different symbols won't work, even if they are better distinguishable. They would still be confusing. Not showing unapplicable patches at all by default is the most promising approach IMHO. There are several ways to achieve that: - Use a drop-down menu, as suggested by Volker. The advantage is that it resembles what we had in 10.0. So it's familiar to those who used 10.0 and OK for those who start with 10.1. The disadvantage is that there is already a drop-down menu, the one where the user can switch between the updater and the normal installer. - Introduce some checkboxes. They could be below the left frame where the patches are shown. They could look like this: [ ] Show already installed patches [ ] Show unapplicable patches They should be unchecked by default, so less experienced people see only what they need and can basically click "Accept" all the time, but more experienced people can still access the full information. Applicable and to-be-installed patches should always be shown, of course. But the question is, what are applicable patches. Patches for installed packages are applicable. Patches for not installed packages are not applicable. But patches with no base packages in the normal installation source - like netbeans, and maybe also msttcorefonts, if they come back - are applicable. Is there a way to determine this status automatically? Another place where some improvements can be made is the way YOU exits if there is nothing to do. I'm not sure if this is still necessary after implementing something similar to the above proposal, but just in case: The "Do you want to install further stuff?" dialog from sw_single could be reused here. 10.0 didn't have that and it was OK without it, so it's just an idea how to make sure the user doesn't think that YOU crashed. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org