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

[Benedikt Meurer]

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]
>>
> 
> 
> Personally, I don't this idea. Maybe you want to install one package
> from source and another directly using a binary. I think we should
> separate the different package formats/types from each other. So for
> example (the layout is ugly, I know ...):
> 
>   |             |                     |
>   +-------------+---------------------+
>   | source-icon | Terminal 0.3.5      |
>   +-------------+---------------------+
>   | rpm-icon    | Terminal 0.3.5      |
>   +-------------+---------------------+
>   |             |                     |

What I don't like here is that the user always has to check the icon. In 
99.99% of all cases you don't care if InstallIt compiles from source or 
installs a binary package. You just want it to install the package.

The fact that it supports both source and binary installation is more or 
less an implementation detail, which should not be exposed too much to 
the user interface.

> - Jannis

Benedikt