[openbeos-cdt] Re: .pkg package uninstaller GUI
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos-cdt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:25:53 +0200 CEST
ukasz 'Sil2100' Zemczak <sil2100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> http://sil2100.vexillium.org/uninstall-beos-custom.png
>
> From my POV all of them have flaws. The most intuitive
> one seems theUnisntall application for BeOS, having a
> very nice KISS feel in it.
I'm not sure about the placement and defaultness of the uninstall
button. Default buttons are usually placed at the bottom-right. (If
defaultness is intended, it should IMO be coupled with a dialog asking
if the action is what the user intended, so as to not accidentally
remove an application while browsing the list.)
I prefer simple terms such as add/remove over install/uninstall, but it
would only add confusion to change the names of the buttons (actions)
when the applications are still called Package installer/uninstaller.
I think it would be nicer to have a single preference application
called simply "Packages" (or "Software Packages"), handling both tasks,
than to have two separate applications. I think a prefs app makes more
sense in presenting packages as part of the whole. (Presenting the
state of the system, allowing to change that state by adding/removing.)
In such a prefs app, the terms add/remove should work well.
(For the record, I hope we never have to use the word "manager", e.g.
"package manager", in a Haiku-provided application.)
I think the scope of the uninstaller should be limited to what is
listed as installed in the package database. (Or whatever turns up in a
query on attributes related to installed package contents, if that gets
implemented. But I don't think that's a must-have feature for now.)
> There's not much that can confuse the user, and its functions
> are explicitly given. What it lacks, though, is giving the user
> the information about the given package. I think it's important.
> The targeted everyday user won't remember
...
I suppose the uninstaller would have to get this information from the
original packages, (or non-/less- payload versions of them?), stored in
the package database. SoftwareValet appears to do something like that
in ~/config/settings/packages.
> I have a few propositions ready in my mind. The first one
> can be seen below.
>
> http://sil2100.vexillium.org/ui_proposition_00.svg
Could you make a PNG or JPEG? This SVG doesn't display with any of the
apps I have in BeOS. Wonderbrush shows only outlines.
/Jonas.
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