[packagekit] PackageKit frontends idea

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 23:39 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>> Man, you're the developer number one on my personal list :) .
> 
> Heh, thanks. Mine's a beer at GUADEC / FOSDEM. ;-)
> 
>> You get great ideas from everything :)
> 
> Well, I think the filters interface sucks at the moment, and we need to
> fix that.
> 
> We currently have an interface like this:
> 
> Installed    [All packages]
> Development  [Available]
> Graphical    [Installed]
> Free         [All packages]
> 
> Which isn't very easy to use, and also sucks if the translations for the
> comboboxes are quite long (fr_FR for instance).
> 
> I'm thinking of splitting the filter into two pages or something, or
> maybe just have a tristate checkbox or something. Maybe option circles
> might be best. Ideas welcome.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
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Just for inspiration

Tim