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

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Aug 24 17:09:11 CEST 2005


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>Exactly. So to the user it should not matter whether a binary package is 
>>available or not (well, except that building source requires -devel 
>>packages, but that's another story).
> 
> 
> I've got another idea on this: We could highlight binary packages which
> fit the package manager backend selected by the user by changing their
> background color or something like that. This would mark them as
> "suitable" and might save some since the user's decision which packages
> to choose is easier, then.
> 
> What do you think?

Marking them is a good idea, but changing the background color is a bad 
idea, as it goes against the selected theme. Better add an icon to the row.

> - Jannis

Benedikt



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