Control: tags -1 + pending Hello Bernhard,
2004-05-05 13:43 Bernhard Trummer:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.14.1-2 Severity: minor Hello. In the title bar, the description text for the 'g' key is always: "Download/Install/Remove Pkgs". However, compared to 'u', one has to press 'g' two times to really download, install and/or remove any packages. So I suggest to display only this description text, if the next press of the 'g' key really will start the download/installation. In all other cases, a different description text should be shown, such as "Preview changes to be done", or something similar. Thank you.
I think that the request makes sense, but that line is static and always the same in all views (so it's a bit of a detour to change the code of that part to suit this particular issue); and in any case it is supposed to be a extremely terse reference, like a tooltip, and there is not space for many explanations. Another argument for not changing it is that it has been like this for more than a decade (as this report shows), without many complaints about it. However, as I say I think that the request makes sense, so to take this into account, I was thinking in changing it to something like "Preview & Perform Actions (Download/Install/...)", but looks a bit ugly/confusing with so many words and spaces (most other elements in a menu are 1 key + 1 word). I later settled on prepending just 'Preview & ' to the same text, so it becomes: 'Preview & Download/Install/Remove Pkgs'. I will consider to change it to something else, or to leave it as it was, so if someone feels strongly in one way or the other please tell me, preferably before the next release. Otherwise this change goes into the next upload, so marking it as pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
