[packagekit] PackageKit frontends idea

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Mon Feb 11 09:04:43 PST 2008


On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:31:03 +0100
"Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek" <jakub.rusinek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if PKit could get some love for UI.
> 
> YaST recently implemented very nice and idiot-friendly UI.
> 
> Here are some pre-release screenshots:
> 
> http://www.decriptor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/packageselector1.png
> http://www.decriptor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/packageselector2.png
> http://www.decriptor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/packageselector3.png
> http://www.decriptor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/packageselector4.png
> 
> Screenshots 2 and 3 are most useful in my opinion.

I do like integrating the 'updates' and 'install new software' UI a
bit, since it all falls under package management.  Their UI seems a bit
busy to me, though.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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