Bug 298735

Summary: Gnome "Software Management" in need of improvement.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Holger Sickenberg <holgi>
Component: UsabilityAssignee: Michael Meeks <mmeeks>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: coolo, forgotten_h13THG8RK1, meissner, mmeeks
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard: gnome-usability
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Description Holger Sickenberg 2007-08-09 08:47:53 UTC
It looks like Gnome has it's own YaST2 "Software Management" module and it has a complete different layout and look as usual YaST2 "Software Management".

I can't imagine that this is really what we want - confusing users with different GUIs
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2007-08-09 08:58:43 UTC
its the yast2-gtk package selector I think (Michael Meeks)
Comment 2 Michael Meeks 2007-08-10 13:31:40 UTC
Holger - the new UI was designed by our UI team. It is intended to be less confusing than the previous, rather complicated (or powerful depending on your taste) version.

Downgrading priority, unless you can provide some more constructive input on what you want to achieve & how. Also, re-assigning to the UI chappy.
Comment 3 Michael Meeks 2007-08-10 13:32:48 UTC
Jakub :-) one for you.
Comment 4 Holger Sickenberg 2007-08-10 15:55:14 UTC
I'm puzzled by the fact that it looks in a total other way than with yast-qt.

Personally (but of course that does not count here) I think it is less well arranged and missing clear view by hiding information behind arrows)
Comment 5 Jakub Steiner 2007-08-10 17:54:41 UTC
The design is based on the spec below. I'm not aware of any usability testing done of the design though. That said, I believe the Qt variant to be unnecessarily complex.

http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/private/installer/
Comment 6 Joerg Kress 2007-09-21 12:39:51 UTC
*** Bug 326824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Forgotten User h13THG8RK1 2007-11-18 02:04:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 287872 ***