On Nov 13, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Michal Pryc wrote: > Michal Pryc wrote: >> Josh Simons wrote: >>> Why is the Add button on the Manage Repositories pane is greyed out, >>> implying I cannot add a new package source? Is this a permissions >>> issue or something else? >> >> There two possibilities: >> >> - You didn't selected (check box in the list) any package that can be >> installed/updated. >> >> - You are running packagemanager without sufficient permissions (run >> with gksu or pfexec on opensolaris) the Package Manager icon is >> starting >> application correctly. > > Hi Josh, > Reply to myself. > The question was about Manage Repositories not Add/Update, so the > possibilities are as follows: > > - You already have the same name for the repository > > - You didn't specify correct URL address > > - Your name for the repository contains incorrect values (spaces for > example) > > best > Michal Pryc
Michal, My issue is one of usability from a UI design perspective. Since the Add button was greyed out, I assumed the companion fields were not active. It is counterintuitive to me that filling in the fields would then cause the Add button to un-grey. (And only if I specified a correctly formatted response.) I asked a professional UI expert outside of Sun if this type of UI behavior was appropriate and she agreed that it would be confusing to users. Josh _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
