[packagekit] Another approach at PK status window

[Ken VanDine]

Ok... now this I like!

--Ken


On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 09:08 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> >  > You've got to admin that currently the thing you get by clicking the
> >  >  PK status icon is less than user friendly. Therefore I came with
> >  >  another idea.
> >
> >  Another mockup follows.
> >
> 
> I agree that we shouldn't show the subpercentage. But I also think
> that anything that shows a scrollable list with all packages is just
> too much information for the progress dialog (that applies both to the
> current implementation and your mockup). We need to remember that the
> primary use case is
> 
> "Oh there are updates ? Please install them for me and tell me when
> you are done."
> 
> not
> 
> "Let me study the list of available updates in great detail...I'll
> pick this, this and this, but not this. Now install this, but I'm
> watching you, so better show me every step you make !"
> 
> Last night I started to work on a simpler progress dialog; the
> attached screenshots are not perfect, since I haven't fixed the window
> size problems of pk-update-viewer yet.
> 
> Matthias
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