[Installit-dev] "package manager " becomes "InstallIt"

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Wed Aug 24 16:11:04 CEST 2005


Benedikt Meurer schrieb:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 
>>In regard to those steps, I'd like to show you our first draft for the
>>main window: http://installit.xfce.org/trac.cgi/wiki/UserInterface
>>
>>It features
>>
>>  - a menu with access to preferences and server setup
>>  - manual update functionality
>>  - a large listview for displaying packages and package groups
>>  - a table containing information and an icon dependent on the package
>>    type
>>  - "install" and "uninstall" buttons
>>
>>We shouldn't bug the user with more than that. The download and
>>installation wizard will be shown once you click install/remove and the
>>main window will be hidden, then.
> 
> 
> Looks good, tho the Description should be a TextView, because it is 
> usually more than one line. Maybe put only Name and Version into the 
> panel and add a button "More Info", which pops up a dialog with detailed 
> information (as the dependencies are also unlikely to fit into one line).
> 

Yep, I'm going to arrange something like this. I doubt the information
will ever fill the screen (on the usual >= 800x600 setup) so perhaps we
could even provide a textview for the dependencies.

- Jannis



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