PackageKit UI
Ian Chapman
packages at amiga-hardware.com
Thu Jun 12 18:02:51 UTC 2008
Richard Hughes wrote:
>>>> What information does the opened/closed box icon give, apart from "we
>>>> have good graphists"?
>>> Open = installed, closed = not installed. The icons also change if you
>>> select them to be added or removed.
>> That's, errr, non-obvious. At all. I don't see how an icon can
>> convey that kind of thing in an obvious way, to be honest. A
>> word+color code combination would probably be better.
> Colour is a bad indicator as many people don't "do" colour.
I think the icon idea is OK but the box icon isn't very obvious. I think
something along the lines of a globe with a downwards pointing green
arrow overlaid on top could represent "not installed, package needs to
be retrieved/downloaded", whilst installed packages could be represented
by a silver hard disk icon, perhaps with word 'installed' written on the
hard disk label.
--
Ian Chapman.
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