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

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Wed Aug 24 17:12:33 CEST 2005


Benedikt Meurer schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Ah, right. Well, I already planned using icons to make the difference
between package types visual but once we've got icons for that we can
add a check mark to them or something which cannot be overseen (and of
course, this should be explained somewhere).



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