Bug 388458

Summary:	confusing use of icons in software management
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Martin Schmidkunz <mschmidkunz>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	confusing icons in pattern section of software management

Description Martin Schmidkunz 2008-05-08 20:53:17 UTC

I have several difficulties with the use of icons in the Software Management module:

1: Dublication of icons in pattern section
Icons are intended to guide the user's attention to a certain spot.
Using the same icon multiple times makes the icon meaningless and useless.

2: Too many icons
The most important thing in the software management is to see the status of the icon. Currently this column is hidden by the (meaningless) pattern icons on the left and some strange checkmark on the right.

3: What is the meaning of the grey checkmark right to the status column?

4: Icons in the icon legend in help are missing.


So my suggestion would be to get rid of the pattern icons and the grey check marks and to have just one column for the status.

Comment 1 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-05-08 20:54:54 UTC

Created attachment 213719 [details]
confusing icons in pattern section of software management

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-09 05:43:05 UTC

no, the status is very unimportant in the pattern list.

Comment 3 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-05-12 10:54:24 UTC

So, it is more important to have the install/installed/remove information?

Is it a valid use case to update/taboo/downgrade every package in a pattern?