Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Michael Gratton]

On 20 September 2018 11:14:18 Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 10:56 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
>> On 20 September 2018 10:44:05 Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally I prefer the Flatpak system - everything just seems
>>> cleaner.
>>> But how should I explain this to a new user that freaked out over
>>> seeing 2 GB required for GIMP 2.10 when 2.8 was less than 62 MB?
>>
>> This seems like a UX issue. Providing a breakdown of download sizes
>> (for
>> example, "62Mb + dependencies" with a popover for full details) would
>> at
>> least provide an idea of where the data is going and why.
>
> OK - here's what the user got when trying to install GIMP 2.10 via the
> Linux Mint 19 Software Manager: https://forums.linuxmint.com/download/f
> ile.php?id=44035&mode=view

Yeah, that's what I mean - the only figure given is a total, so it's not at 
all clear how much of that is the app, and how much are the dependencies. 
Most people won't care, but for those that do providing a breakdown via 
progressive disclosure would at least give an explanation of why it's a 
~750M download.

//Mike