https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390471
User mmeeks@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390471#c3
Michael Meeks changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Michael Meeks 2008-05-15 03:47:33 MST ---
Agreed :-) I too couldn't work out how to install things - and didn't notice
the "Install" icon button on the bottom right until hunting for it.
Ricardo - any chance of a bigger "install" button somewhere more visible ?
Can we put it beside the Filter combo ? perhaps with three icon: install,
update, remove - make them always visible - and change their sensitivity as we
go [ can be duplicate icons perhaps ? ] - the Gnome HIG suggests not hiding &
showing the UI as much as possible, but de-sensitising it appropriately.
Another thing that would be extremely helpful [I think], would be to make the
existing buttons insensitive when there is nothing selected - such that when
someone clicks on one - at least the existing icon changes to sensitive -
alerting people that something is now possible :-)
I played with the latter suggestion:
--- src/YGPackageSelector.cc (revision 47549)
+++ src/YGPackageSelector.cc (working copy)
@@ -1606,6 +1606,10 @@
void setPackages (const PkgList &packages)
{
m_packages = packages;
+
+ gtk_widget_set_sensitive (m_installed_box, !packages.empty());
+ gtk_widget_set_sensitive (m_available_box, !packages.empty());
+
if (packages.empty())
return;
The problem is that the information in the bottom PackageControl can get stale
- since it's not flushed / hidden on package de-selection (as we see above).
Perhaps a solution would be to switch the layout: put the action buttons on the
left side of the package description (so the eye sees them first) - and add
move the action items to the left side too.
Perhaps also replacing the version combo-button with a "click to install" type
button would work - or even making the install button bigger ? :-)
Another useful hint here I think would be to de-sensitise the "Apply" button
when there is no transaction - that should alert people to the fact that they
need to do something more I guess :-)
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