On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:37:07PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >>IMO it's less visual clutter just to show the category than to add a >>checkbox. >> >>Automatically unhide it if the user has anything other than the current >>version of any of the packages? > >The problem with that is: > >- The 'category' columns are made artifically wide to fit the text >'ZZZRemovedPackages' and '_PostInstallLast' which are wider than any >actual category names. > >- In all the views except the category one, the dummy packages are >intermixed with real packages. > >I have a version that I've been testing that removes these two >categories from view, and it really does make things a lot less >cluttered.
How about if we just adopt a convention of making categories which begin with '_' invisible? We could move ZZZRemovedPackages to just _RemovedPackages for that case. cgf
