Some great ideas. I am working toward this. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mikus Grinbergs</b> <<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Jop and I have been working on the new smart gui.<br>> I am open to suggestions.<br><br><br>Some wishes:<br><br> - My biggest simple complaint with the present GUI is that<br> (probably because of the way I have smart set up) the 'Expand
<br> All' in 'View' cannot be checkmarked.<br><br> Having done a 'Search", I have to *additionally* request<br> 'Expand All' - I would like to be able to omit this extra step.<br><br> - And the "Status Area" needs to be *blanked* every time that a
<br> click initiates some kind of processing. As it is, the output<br> message "No interesting updates available" from 'Upgrade'<br> persists inappropriately after other functions are invoked.<br>
<br> - Also, I wish that the various smart windows would remember their<br> sizes and positions the way I've set them. As it is, I have to<br> re-size/re-position them every time I restart 'smart --GUI'.
<br><br> - I believe that with the current implementation, when a panel<br> provides a 'Close' button, sometimes when I forget and click on<br> the 'X' in the Title Bar - nothing much happens. I wish the 'X'
<br> would do the same thing the 'Close' button does.<br><br> - A major complaint that is more difficult to fix is that the<br> 'Change Summary' panel put up by 'Upgrade all packages' (also by
<br> 'Apply marked changes') is __read-only__. There are times when<br> I do *not* want a particular package to be upgraded. The best<br> that I can do is to make sure that "changes" are "marked", then:
<br><br> As now implemented, I have to separately go to 'View',<br> checkmark 'Hide Unmarked' (and in a separate step request<br> 'Expand All') -- only in the resulting main panel can I
<br> then "unmark" the changes I do not want applied.<br><br> It would cut out the extra steps if I could "unmark" from the<br> 'Change Summary' panel directly.<br><br><br><br>And a comment:
<br><br> - I greatly prefer (from a Human-Factors viewpoint) the top-level<br> layout in Ubuntu Synaptic -- there is no need to go to the 'View'<br> drop-down menu -- instead the selection buttons (for what is to
<br> be displayed in the main panel) are *always* accessible.<br><br><br>mikus<br><br></blockquote></div><br>