[packagekit] Another approach at PK status window

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Wed Mar 19 02:57:24 PDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Adrien BUSTANY <madcat at mymadcat.com> wrote:
> Hi, I really like this mockup, compared to the current window. About the
>  subpercentage, what if the user has to update say 100 packages ? Do you
>  display 100 items (and then we need a scrollbar ?), or do you add an
>  item labeled "update 100 packages", then the scrollbar will go very
>  slowly (there was a doc published recently about scrollbars, and how
>  users "feeled" them, telling that a slow slow slow scrollbar was not a
>  good idea) ?

I guess there is no way to work around having 100 entries in there as
each can either fail or succeed and it's possible that at some point
multiple upgrades can be performed in parallel.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution



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