[issue51] More friendly gui ?

[Mathieu Clabaut at Labix Tracker]

New submission from Mathieu Clabaut <mathieu.clabaut at gmail.com>:

It happens very often, that the smart process flow is interrupted by a popup 
only used to inform the user, which has no other choice than to click the "OK" 
button (a repository is not available, the user has click on cancel,...).

It seems to me quite cumbersome and not useful. Depending on the window 
manager you are using, the popup will catch the focus, breaking the user 
action. Or if the window manager is set to prevent the focus to be stolen, the 
alert popup can be set hidden behind a pile of other windows.
And more than once, I launch a smart action, then go to some other tasks, 
expecting smart to have done its job when returning, but then finding that it 
has stop its job only to say me that a repository was unavailable... Quite 
frustrating :-)

It would be nice to replace all those useless popup, by an information 
subwindow/panel, and to let smart do its job without interruption (unless an 
internal fatal error is encounter).

Of course I have no patch to propose :-(

Apart this suggestion, I must say that smart is wonderful !

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messages: 130
nosy: mathieu.clabaut
priority: wish
project: smart
status: unread
title: More friendly gui ?

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