How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 07:55:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 21:09 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tristate checkboxes are a very common UI to represent groups where a more 
> detailed selection is available, many Window$ installers use them (and those 
> are surely targeted at the average user!), as does Anaconda (or at least used 
> to do). A tristate in the gray state is a clear hint that you have to go to the 
> details to see what exactly is selected and unselected.

I've done two user-screencasts of people navigating groups using pirut
who have never used pirut or PackageKit before. I can upload them
somewhere if poeple are interested, although they are pretty big.

Tri-state checkboxes are a disaster.

Richard.





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