Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (216 mails)

[Christian Jäger <christian.jaeger@xxxxxx>]

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

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