Hi Clayton, On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:22 +0100, Clayton wrote:
That "weird" Gnome Yast SW management module has been around for a couple of releases (since 10.3), and honestly it is probably the most difficult to use and illogical software management tool I've used across pretty much all Linux distros I've tried. There was a lot of stuff on the WIki about it (when the design was proposed and being worked on)... but I can't find it right now.
:-) So - Christian helped design it, with Ricardo - that effort happened mostly in public, AFAIR - as you say in the Wiki. If you had got involved then you could have changed it.
In theory, all you should have to do is remove the GTK YaST and install the QT version to get a more usable software management tool again.
So - just to put a stake in the ground; the Qt software management tool employs an incredibly un-intuitive triple-(or more?) state field in a tree-view to determine what to do with a package - simply keep clicking to rotate around the umpteen states. That may be usable to people who already know how it works ;-) but it is IMHO pretty shocking UI design. yast2-gtk's package selector (for it's various faults) doesn't do that.
I wonder if whoever put all that effort and work into the GTK version has ever done any work or research into usability and UI architecture... it would fail if I passed it by any professional UI architect I know. I raised this comment back when it was implemented and was dutifully shot down.
Perhaps it was not the most constructive feedback :-) However - it is easy to test; Garret / Jakub - any chance of a quick take on the relative merits of the UIs of both the yast2 gtk+ and qt package selectors - and how we can improve the former ? Thanks, Michael. -- michael.meeks@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org