New Smart GUI

[linux_learner]

I am working on that. I won't be able to actually show that functionality
till it's coded, but here is a concept screenshot.
http://downloads.thecompletecomputerresource.com/smart/smart gui/screen
shots/smart_gui2.jpg

Well, when I go to add this, during testing, I'd like to make the gui called
upon by smart --gui2, this way it wont affect the core.

I haven't figured out how to lay out the configure tab yet. I'm still
working on the layout.

On 8/9/07, Richard Hendershot <rshendershot at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 12:08 -0700, linux_learner wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> I'd like to see the main window to include the Group that a package was
> from.  This is in the Channels hierarchical view.  An example is
> searching on 'rescue'.  I see ddrescue.  I don't know what group it's
> from.  It sounds like what I need.
>
> I also see blobwarz and ballz.  They *sound* like games but that is not
> always so clear.  If I chose Group or Channel&Group views then the only
> thing accomplished is I have to drill down into every repository and
> group to see what files they might contain.
>
> I want just to see the files whose descriptions match and their
> attributes.  Group surely is one.
>
> When all is said and done, I find smart an irreplaceable tool, so
> whatever GUI warts might come along with it I have to acknowledge that
> it does the job; I'm much more concerned about its handling of all the
> various repositories, their types, their disparate versions, and
> performance than ease of use.  Huge, hearty Thanks to the devs.
>
> But if any GUI effort destabilizes the core then I'm totally against.
>
> -Rick
>
>
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