Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/02/2008, Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

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Benjamin Weber
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