[sbopkg-users] A suggestion

[Mauro Giachero]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave at gmail.com>wrote:

> First off - for an alpha release, this is remarkably stable and error free;
> congratulations to the team!


:-)


> My suggestion is about the <Queue> submenu.
>
> Having loaded/created a queue, there are a number of options:
>
> View
> Load
> Save
> Edit
> Rename
> Delete
> Add
> Process
>
> When you want to edit the queue, naturally, you head for Edit. However, the
> only editing options in Edit are to delete single items, or clear the whole
> queue. In contrast, if you select View, you have the option to Reverse and
> Sort the queue. I think these two options should be in the Edit menu, and
> there should be only two options in the View menu (which should still allow
> you to select/deselect packages), namely OK and Back.
>
> This would group all the edit-type options together (i.e. the ability to
> sort, reverse, clear and delete items from a queue) into a single menu, and
> leave the View menu to do just that.
>
> I appreciate the issue might be one of limited space in the respective
> menus, but perhaps dispensing with the list of packages in the Edit menu,
> replacing it with a series of submenu options, and then presenting the queue
> again only when one of those submenu options has been selected.
>
> So, a flow to edit the queue order might be:
>
> sbopkg > Queue > Load (load some queue) > Edit > Sort > fiddle with the
> order using the existing system
>
> Or, to delete a package from the queue:
>
> sbopkg > Queue > Load (load some queue) > Edit > Delete > then delete
> packages in the queue
>
> Just a thought :)
>
> Pierre


The queue menu suffers a bit from being "grown" a lot since its birth, and I
agree it's confusing.
Your proposal is certainly interesting. I've always tried to avoid another
menu level, but we have probably passed the point where it makes sense...

Thank you for your feedback. I put this topic in my TODO list, so you'll
hopefully see the things improve in the next (pre)release.

-- 
Mauro Giachero
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