[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Wed Oct 27 13:04:46 CEST 2010

On 27 October 2010 00:16, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>
+> The problem is:
+> If you hide too much ("Programs with GUI") the forums are crowded with
+> threads like
+>  - "Install foo from the MCC"
+>  - "I can't find it in the software management"
+>  - "Did you set your media?"
+>  - "Yes, foo is not there."
+>  - "Did you change view to 'All'?"
+>  - "Ah! Now I see it - very confusing!"
+> There were times when such postings were more than 10 per month!
+>
+> If you hide too few like "All" the unexperienced user is confused. He
+> will be surely confused by a list of options he hasn't any clue what
+> they mean.
+>
+> A solution could be to
+> 1. hide everything but the application packages (no matter if GUI or CLI)
+> 2. Insert such a list of options but give it an "expert" tag.
+> 3. The most important: make a search result visible also if the result
+> is something which would be hidden otherwise.
+>
+> Example:
+> gstreamer-plugin-devel (don't care about the name) would be hidden in
+> standard view. But if the user writes "gstreamer" into the search
+> field it shouold be displayed in the search result view.
+>
+
+What's "standard view" in this context? standard view is empty when I
+open rpmdrake; or you mean when one selects a group/category from the
+list on the left?
+
+> This way we could even keep the current order with "programs with gui"
+> as default. When the user no searches for 'mc' he will see it in the
+> list of search results, although 'mc' would not be displayed in
+> "Programs with GUI" view.
+>
+
+Well that's the same problem, you search for 'amarok' you'll get a lot
+of packages, libs, -utils,-scripts (double that number on 64bit
+installs as you'll see both x86_64 and i586 packages).
+
+I still think a "Show more" button, however it is implemented, is a good idea...
+
+> Does anybody understand what I wrote? Can't explain it in better words. :)
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+