Onsdag den 1. april 2009 05:57:20 skrev Ricardo Cornet:
Something I did not include in the previous mail, partly because I forgot /partly because It can be implemented independently of the usability improved minimalistic yast is a extra tab for the yast software manager.
This tab would focus on desktop applications exclusively. For example when I want to install one simple application for example openoffice, dozens of package appear, regular users are puzzled by it and don't get anywhere, and advanced users have to look out for the one right package to install or rigorous one-by-one selection.
I'd like to hear your opinions.
I think history is full of examples of trying to make things easier and more minimalistic, and things ending up more confusing complex and unreliable and/or not doing what people need. Instead of doing it in a tab, maybe it could be done using a filter. Similarly to how Mandriva does it. So when you start up YaST software manager by default it will only search for gui apps. I guess this could be fairly easily integrated into the existing filter structure. Hope this image shows the Mandriva approach clearly - look at the top left combobox http://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers/2009/mandriva-2009-software- management.jpg Btw. as I understand it, with the software managers unlike other YaST-modules you don't get both Qt and GTK "for free". So do you plan to do this for Qt _and_ GTK, or only or the other? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org