2009/11/19 Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:22 +0100, Clayton wrote:
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 think right-click explains how to use '-', '>' etc. The "toggle" is misnamed, but such things are used in OSD's for example to select between 'pages' of options. It's like a channel skip, as opposed to radio buttons I suppose.
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 ?
I have read some reviewer's past comments on confusing & quirky management tools, which I had thought was likely due to confusing labelling in some parts of installer. Generally the bits in YaST that I ran into that I didn't like have been improved greatly in last releases. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org