[Bug 299787] New: software repositories: enabled/ disabled switching still not clear enough
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787 Summary: software repositories: enabled/disabled switching still not clear enough Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jdluhos@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- The 'Software repositories' dialog in 10.3 uses a small check sign to indicate whether a repository is enabled or disabled. This is good, and certainly better to understand than the old "on/off" text, but I think it is still not clear enough for a normal user. The check mark is at the very left edge and easy to miss (I have not noticed it at all on the first try). Please don't take me wrong - I think the new dialog is certainly a large step in the good direction, I only think we need to go a bit further. I would propose: - coloring the whole line slight gray if it is disabled - centering the checkmark glyph in its column so it is better visible - a doubleclick on the line should toggle the enabled/disabled status -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c2
--- Comment #2 from Jiri Dluhos
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c3
Jiří Suchomel
- coloring the whole line slight gray if it is disabled
unfortunately this is not possible with our UI
- centering the checkmark glyph in its column so it is better visible
That's questionable. For example I think it is very well visible and that it is nicer on the left side that it would be in the center (JFYI, I didn't write it, so I'm not biased :-))
- a doubleclick on the line should toggle the enabled/disabled status
Makes sense. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c4
--- Comment #4 from Jiří Suchomel
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c5
Jiří Suchomel
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c6
--- Comment #6 from Jiří Suchomel
- a doubleclick on the line should toggle the enabled/disabled status
yast2-packager-2.15.60 -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c7
Stefan Hundhammer
If the repository name is too long, it widens the frame that's around it (see the screenshot). Stefan, could it be avoided somehow?
Not with the way our table widget works right now. Qt (-3 and -4) can also internally cut off over-long texts in colum and add an elipsis ("...") instead so the user can still make the column wider. But just how wide is "too wide"? Do we want to avoid scrolling horizonatlly completely, always using the cut-off-and-add-elipsis technique? (the underlying Qt widget can do that, too AFAIK). We could add yet another widget option for that behaviour. Or we could let the application specify wich columns should auto-strech to fit their content and which ones should cut off, but that would be an API change (or at least an API extension). Let me think about this. Maybe there is a good (preferably generic) long-term solution. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c8
Jiří Suchomel
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c9
--- Comment #9 from Stefan Hundhammer
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c10
--- Comment #10 from Jiří Suchomel
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c11
--- Comment #11 from Stefan Hundhammer
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c12
Stefan Hundhammer
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299787#c13
--- Comment #13 from Stefan Hundhammer
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