Michael Nelson schrieb: > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:43 +0200, Pascal wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> this is my first mail in this list, so first thanks to Canonical and to >> the community for the cool launchpad service :) >> >> I noticed that the design of the launchpad ppas changed newly. This mail >> is only for a suggestion to change the title of the "technical details >> about this ppa" dropdown. It is not intuitive at all. A title like >> "instructions for adding this ppa to your sources" would be better. I >> link to my personal ppa page for the installation instructions of my >> program, and I am afraid that some users will not have the idea to open >> this dropdown. Normal users do not care about "technical details", but >> they care about "instructions". >> >> I also wonder what is the purpose of the "Not using Ubuntu 9.10 >> (karmic)?" link. It suggests that it would be the normal case to already >> use karmic. In my opinion, users shouldn't install a new version of a >> distribution before its final release... >> > > > Hi Pascal, > > Yes, it was difficult to come up with something that suited all users > and wouldn't require updating once Karmic was released. > > So the decision for 'Technical details about this PPA' was really > influenced by the fact that users of the PPA should not need to see > those details at all - unless they are interested in the technical > details - and this is still the case for users looking at a PPA with the > question "What's this PPA about". But, as you've said, this is not the > case for all non-karmic users looking at a PPA thinking 'How can I add > this PPA to my system'. > > That is the reason for the other link "Not using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)" > link - which opens those technical details. This link was not intended > to suggest that users should upgrade to Karmic pre-release (but you're > right, the hint is there), but rather to (1) help people get the right > information, and (2) provide a way to hide the technical details by > default. We did think about other options - such as "Manual installation > instructions" but that doesn't work either. (If you've got other > suggestions, let me know!) > > The good news is, I've just chatted with the person who made it easy to > add PPAs in Karmic - and we might be able to get that functionality > backported to Jaunty and Hardy - which would mean the 'Technical details > about this PPA' would be only that (ie. not required at all for > installation), and we could get rid of the 'Not using Ubuntu 9.10 > (karmic)' link altogether :) It's apparently easy to do, but requires > approval. > > I've created: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-properties/+bug/440512 > > to track that. >
sounds good, thank you for your efforts Michael :) > Thanks for the feedback! > -Michael > > >> cheers >> Pascal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > >
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