https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428162 User rpmcruz@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428162#c14 --- Comment #14 from Ricardo Cruz <rpmcruz@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt> 2008-09-30 11:56:47 MDT --- (In reply to comment #12 from Robert Harvey)
The tips sound simple.
Added it.
Tips might help with "I think the vocabulary 'group' and 'pattern' is not self-evident."
That seems to be my root problem - there is something Humpty-Dumpty in the way the words are used. Some explanation - either by pop-up, or a small footnote on the panel, might make it clearer.
Added a tooltip to the type combo describing the several options.
Perhaps just starting in "Patterns" by default rather than "Group".
But the patterns are only available for a limited subset of the packages... Anyway, the groups is actually something Stefan (or Kulow) came up for 11.0. I think we barely need a plan of what we want groups and categories to be exactly, since the current situation is confusing, and hooking it up with the patterns seems like a very feasible project.
A lot of recent magazines about naive windows-linux conversion have concentrated on how surprised the unsuspecting are by the very idea of repositories and software managers. Perhaps a "catalogue" paradigm, like a paper mail-order catalogue, could be presented by some of these fantastic UI designers? A coloured section called "KDE" with 'get the base system' as a page-repeated heading, or tag, and with lots of individual applications with screen shots and writeups on each page. Differently coloured sections for gnome, mathematical tools, office applications, amateur radio, farming? That would have solved my problem, and help the newcomer to snuggle in more easily?
Ubuntu already does something like that: http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/gtk/mockups/package-selector/ubuntu-a... Yeah, Suse barely needs something like this that could cooperate with its desktop menu systems. I like the idea of merging the menu editor with this, and also make it working with the mime-type system, so you can easily install the application for a format you're trying to open. Plus, Linux commercial vendors could really use an outlet for desktop programs that took the burden and assured the user the programs will function in any future upgrade of the system. I'm sure Novell could use the revenue as well, and they could allow the user to build music and other libraries from there. -- 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.