Ciao Katarina

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Katarina Machalkova
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> What I particularly don't like is the concept of solving the whole problem (
> i.e. informing the user about how much disk space will be taken/freed if s/he
> accepts the changes made in this session). I mean, I have to un-hide the disk
> space graph widget, hover the mouse over current partition and only then I
> can see a tiny tooltip, isn't it a bit ... clumsy?
> Yes, it is probably the least obtrusive change to package selector UI ( no
> annoying pop-ups, no additional buttons in already too much crowded
> screen ... ), but it is so badly accesible that if I don't know exactly what
> I'm looking for, I have no chance to find it.

Yes it may be clumsy, but look at what Stefan Hundhammer write here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399239

<<
Quite a number of people wanted this invisible by default; they say (I don't
agree to that) that this makes this dialog more complex. So it was decided that
we remove it.
>>

Many users asked for that, and a bit of us (I and Stefan :), at least)
don't agree. I thougtht that demanding / interested users, as well as
open the table widget, could also trigger the tooltip :)

> Not to mention the fact that I'd very much liked to see some solution usable
> in all package manager UIs, so we don't have to recycle and reimplement the
> code over and over again (in all package manager UIs).
> I filed this enhancement request
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410897 so that the functions
> calculating disk usage changes are made available outside zypper and all
> package managers (UI or CLI) can use them i.e. can ask libzypp about current
> status when user/application requests it.

Generally speaking I agree with code refactoring practice, I hope yast
will be better ;)
So are you going to discard the patch?

Ciao
Roberto
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