[openbeos-cdt] Re: .pkg installer user interface
- From: Łukasz 'Sil2100' Zemczak <sil2100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos-cdt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:12:21 +0200
Hi everyone,
Thanks again for your comments. After some thought, I'm starting to
think that the best choice would be putting less attention to BeOS
similarity than before. I will be mostly commenting on Waldemar's posts,
since my thoughts are quite similar to what DarkWyrm suggested, no
comment from my side is needed.
Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
About showing the file list, I still disagree. If we can work around
bad packages automatically we don't need to inspect them. Nobody does
this under Windows, so why should we?
I don't think Windows is a good argument, since many of their approaches
are far from being intuitive and useful. My thoughts of this are quite
simple - I don't like the idea to decrease user freedom (since knowing
what the system does _is_ freedom) just because complexity would rise a
bit. Even though we aim for normal, desktop users, I think we should not
tighten our area of vision too much. I know a few people that are
neither developers nor complete computer newbies that find such
information interesting. I just can't imagine them running the package
builder, or some other application, to get this info. The same goes for
me, as I have the very same thoughts as DarkWyrm.
IMO, one additional button put in the right place won't make normal
users waste time or feel uncomfortable. I simply think the pros of such
addition overwhelm the cons.
BTW, one other minor improvement suggestion:
"Begin" is basically like "OK" and I think more obvious labels should
be used. What do you think about renaming "Begin" to "Install"?
This seems a good idea. Although the old approach is still quite good,
since we decided already that the window tab should include "Install:
Package name". With this addition, "Begin" also sounds fair, since the
user knows that pressing the button will "begin the installation of
Package name".
Just a quick note for Łukasz:
I think that our installer should be able to recognize such "bad"
packages and not allow for selecting a target folder (but only a
volume).
I agree. This would then end the issue of volume and path separation.
The pop-up field could be replaced with a BStringView when there is
only one option, so you could easily recognize when multiple options
are available (if that's your concern).
The same here - I also agree.
Anyway, right now I think that a UI similar to the one proposed by
Waldemar can prove to be a good choice. First, the issue of the "Show
files" button should be resolved though...
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Best regards,
Łukasz 'Sil2100' Zemczak
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