I can sympathize with this perspective. Traditionally, software updates only update software which is already installed. In this perspective, I could see one expecting all those activities already installed being selected by default, and others left unchecked for one to select as desired.
On the other hand, I appreciate that our primary use case is for deployments and entire schools of kids, where the set of activities chosen for the update has been carefully selected by the school, and might include a handful of new or customized activities for the upcoming school year, for instance. In such a scenario, selecting all by default is clearly desired. I'm not sure what the answer is. Offering a flag with the activity pack somehow could work, I suppose, but makes the idea less pure. Maybe adding buttons for "select all/deselect all" and "select installed" would be better, to make managing the selection easier and more exposed, could work. Or, perhaps better, we could offer a "smart" activity pack in the list for "Installed activities" which then presents a list of all installed activities (checked by default, just like the other activity packs). - Eben On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM, genesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> One more? Software Updates defaults all available Activities pre-selected. >> Their boxes checked, in other words. I would rather choose the updates I >> want than de-select the ones I don't. Some of the Activity Groups are huge. >> It's a hassle clicking on the many not wanted to download a few. > > Right-click, "unselect all". Voila! > > If only all our 9.1 features were already implemented. ;-) > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar