PackageKit UI

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 20:59:54 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <
> nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> 
>>> [1] http://www.packagekit.org/temp/gpk-application-multiple.png
>> I think your main problem was the tabs gallore on the right side. It's
>> probably better to have just one column with information presented
>> sequentially in it
> 
> 
> Yes, since its presenting information and not UI, use a collapsible tree.
> Like say, Wireshark's packet information display.

I hate having a center column so narrow it needs a scrollbar just to show the 
name of most packages.  Thats just simply an unusable UI, even if the right side 
was collapsible.

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