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

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Aug 24 17:22:37 CEST 2005


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>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).

Definitely, but don't override user choices by changing the background 
color of tree view rows. Personally, I'd even prefer to have only one 
row per package and if the user selects a row for which both source and 
binary packages are available, popup a dialog:

  "Do you want to use binary package instead of compiling?"
  [x] Remember my choice
  [Yes] [No]

And add a know to the preferences dialog to change this setting afterwards.

Benedikt



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