[packagekit] This dialog sucks

Jud Craft craftjml at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 13:56:14 PDT 2009


Rephrase the dialogue, and hide all technical verbiage (that includes
"keys" and "repository") under an expander.  Are you allowed to move
this information to a place where it's less obvious?

"Are you sure you want to enable software from the provider [X]?
(Only enable software from places that you trust.)"

[X] = the User Identifier name.  It seems to be the most human
readable.  Maybe truncate the last X at This.Address off, since that's
not really critical information; put that under the details as well.
So, here:

For the repository,
"Are you sure you want to enable software from the provider "Test Key
(Fedora) - Updates"?  Only enable software from places that you
trust."

OR, for a particular package,
"Are you sure you want to install [boldface]vips-doc[/boldface] from
"Test Key (Fedora) - Updates"?  Only install software from places that
you trust."



And that's it.  The rest of the information is meaningless to most
users.  Then, add a "Click here for more details about [X]..." which
expands with the repository URL, identifier, name, etc.

Maybe take inspiration from Internet Explorer's "plugin from an
unknown source" dialog.  IE had to deal with a _lot_ of that.

Or, instead of a "Click for more details..." expander, maybe you could
have two tabs on the dialog:  one a "General" with just this
information, and one with "More Details" which has all of the
incomprehensible to an average Joe stuff on it.  Most general Joe
users aren't even going to be able to use a key to confirm the source
is trusted anyway -- heck, I consider myself a good Linux user, and I
have no idea how to actually use the repository keys to prove I'm safe
-- so there's no real need to frighten them with all that "key"
terminology.



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