On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:41 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:22:17PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:09 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:09:10PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > Comments/suggestions welcome, > > > > > > What are your use cases? Do you have any? > > > > Lots, see www.packagekit.org. > > I may be a tad dense, but I can't find them there. In the developer docs IIRC. > > > How do you handle the use case "I need something to type a letter, > > > what can I install for that, what are my choices?". > > > How do you handle the use case "I want my desktop to look cooler, what > > > can I add?". > > > How do you handle the use case "I need some free space, what can I > > > remove?". > > > > We are prototyping something web-based for this sort of thing. We'll be > > announcing stuff soon (if it works), I promise. > > Good. Then, what is your interface for, other than placating those > who think they can't survive if they can't point and drool and > consider that typing "yum install stuff" is way too complex? It's somewhere in the middle of "What's a computer" to "iwconfig wlan0" - competent users who just want to get something done. > > > What information does the opened/closed box icon give, apart from "we > > > have good graphists"? > > > > Open = installed, closed = not installed. The icons also change if you > > select them to be added or removed. > > That's, errr, non-obvious. At all. I don't see how an icon can > convey that kind of thing in an obvious way, to be honest. A > word+color code combination would probably be better. And you > probably need to have filters like "show installed", "show updates", > etc directly clickable in the window instead of tucked in a menu. > Color the appropriate words in the filter name with the same color > than the indicator in the array and you're probably golden. Colour is a bad indicator as many people don't "do" colour. > > > Why do you present multiple versions of the same thing (compiz-gnome > > > in your screenshot), especially as is they were different? > > > > Ahh, it shows there is an update available. Maybe we need to expose this > > clearer. > > Ohhhh yes you do. There was talk on the mailing list on how we parametrize these better so we can show better icons in the UI. It petered out a few weeks ago, feel free to jump on the mailing list and help out. Thanks! Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
