On 27/02/2008, Alberto Passalacqua
I have just seen some screenshots of the "new and improved" package selector. ... It definitely looks bad, and it doesn't seem to add all the functionalities YaST Software Management has in its Qt version.
We discussed a lot about having a very similar interface on both desktop managers for YaST. This is not going in that direction, in my opinion, so it would be nice to have some clarification on the plans for openSUSE 11.
Judging from http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Log It would appear that the Martin Schmidkunz from the usability team has been looking at package management UI design. (http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Redesign_swmanagement_search.png for example) I hope the outcome of this design work can be adopted for both the GTK and the Qt package selectors. I don't know how overly optimistic this is, I suppose it depends on GNOME team agreeing with everyone else. As you mention, it is very useful to have the same design UI for package management on both desktops so that we can write desktop agnostic documentation, and help people from either desktop. Currently both the GTK and Qt selector designs have significant problems IMO http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/b/qt_selector_problems.png are some of the things that annoy me most about the Qt one. Some of which are solved in the new (factory) GTK selector, but there are also new problems introduced in the new GTK selector. -- Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org