Bug 548256

Summary:	Software manager tabs contravene user interface principles (not strictly bug but should be fixed prior to release)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Ian Cheong <ian.cheong>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Ian Cheong 2009-10-19 21:36:56 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-3.2 Firefox/3.5.3

The old software manager tabs had "status" type labels (Available; Upgrades; Installed).

The new software manager has action words as tab labels (Install; Upgrade; Remove; Undo) that should belong to buttons. It is counterintuitive and redundant.

The labels should represent things and the buttons should represent correct and context sensitive actions (not "Apply"). Selection boxes are clear in purpose and do not have to relate to the tab title.

Suggest the old tab labels from 11.1 are easier to understand and consitent with user interface design principles.

The required tab labels and [buttons] are:
Installed/Current/OK [Remove]
Upgradeable/Outdated/Old [Update]
Available/New [Install]
Proposed/Queued/To Do [Undo] [Proceed] [Do It]


Reproducible: Always

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Love the new look, but UI still needs work and some consistent guiding principles like Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2009-10-20 05:11:15 UTC

duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 547075 ***