New Smart GUI

[linux_learner]

Some great ideas. I am working toward this.

On 8/2/07, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>
> > Jop and I have been working on the new smart gui.
> > I am open to suggestions.
>
>
> Some wishes:
>
>   - My biggest simple complaint with the present GUI is that
>     (probably because of the way I have smart set up) the 'Expand
>     All' in 'View' cannot be checkmarked.
>
>     Having done a 'Search", I have to *additionally* request
>    'Expand All' - I would like to be able to omit this extra step.
>
>   - And the "Status Area" needs to be *blanked* every time that a
>     click initiates some kind of processing.  As it is, the output
>     message "No interesting updates available" from 'Upgrade'
>     persists inappropriately after other functions are invoked.
>
>   - Also, I wish that the various smart windows would remember their
>     sizes and positions the way I've set them.  As it is, I have to
>     re-size/re-position them every time I restart 'smart --GUI'.
>
>   - I believe that with the current implementation, when a panel
>     provides a 'Close' button, sometimes when I forget and click on
>     the 'X' in the Title Bar - nothing much happens.  I wish the 'X'
>     would do the same thing the 'Close' button does.
>
>   - A major complaint that is more difficult to fix is that the
>     'Change Summary' panel put up by 'Upgrade all packages' (also by
>     'Apply marked changes') is __read-only__.  There are times when
>     I do *not* want a particular package to be upgraded.  The best
>     that I can do is to make sure that "changes" are "marked", then:
>
>       As now implemented, I have to separately go to 'View',
>       checkmark 'Hide Unmarked' (and in a separate step request
>       'Expand All') -- only in the resulting main panel can I
>       then "unmark" the changes I do not want applied.
>
>     It would cut out the extra steps if I could "unmark" from the
>     'Change Summary' panel directly.
>
>
>
> And a comment:
>
>   - I greatly prefer (from a Human-Factors viewpoint) the top-level
>     layout in Ubuntu Synaptic -- there is no need to go to the 'View'
>     drop-down menu -- instead the selection buttons (for what is to
>     be displayed in the main panel) are *always* accessible.
>
>
> mikus
>
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