On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 05:09:55AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > >> For >> instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', >> suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying >> this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through >> the Views and come back to `Not installed'. aspell-dev is no longer in >> the list, despite the fact that I have not done anything other than >> change the view. It is no more installed now than it was before. > > Well, the way I think of it is that when setup starts up, those displays >show you the current state of your installation; and what you do is change >things until they show you how you want it to be after setup completes, and >then when you've got everything how you want it to be, you hit "Next" to apply >your changes. > > BTW, in response to all the comments so far: > > I'm going to add right-click context menus because that's a small >incremental improvement that can be done now. At least it'll bring an end to >the current craziness where trying to uninstall a whole bunch of >interdependent packages in one go is like one of those logical puzzle games >where every time you press a button a different subset of the lights toggle on >or off!
But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful thing to do. Maybe if you replaced the spinners with something non-clickable that would be different. But, having to tell everyone to right-click doesn't seem like a huge improvement. People still see the spinner there, don't know what it is, and don't right or left click on it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple