[sbopkg-discuss] Re: Sbopkg 0.25.0 released

[Chess Griffin]

* alkos333 <alkos333 at gmail.com> [2009-01-18 01:01:55]:

> In the queue management dialog, when one of the items is deselected,
> it's removed, which to me is somewhat counter-intuitive.  What if some
> of the dependencies have already been installed and the admin wants to
> deselect them?  I thought that by deselecting an item in the queue,
> the ON flag would be changed to OFF when saved to a file.  I think it
> would be better if one could temporarily deselect items from the queue
> by unchecking them and if they wanted to remove them entirely, they
> could just select <Delete> on the bottom ?  For example, take ardour,
> boost and libgnomecanvas are some of the numerous dependencies for it,
> but I already have them installed.  I added them to the queue because
> I'd like to save a complete queue to the file for the future use, but
> I'd like to exclude certain items the build process because I don't
> want to wait for them to compile.

Ok, I have thought more about this and I agree that being able to turn
items ON/OFF but keep them in the queue is a good idea, and I have a
working implementation of this (not committed to SVN though).  However,
the only 'problem' is the deleting of items, and this is mainly due to
the limitations of dialog.  As it stands we have 4 buttons on that
screen already.  Only when you press OK do you get the selected items
written to dialog's output.  Anyway, the easiest (though maybe not the
most efficient) way to do this is have the current view queue screen
basically the same, but with the ability to turn individual items ON or
OFF.  Then, in the separate "Clear Queue" menu entry that already
exists, turn this into another checklist where people can delete
individual items (by deselecting them) or delete the whole queue.  It
puts the deleting in a different screen than the 'View' screen, but
again, I think this is mainly because we're starting to bump up against
the limitations of dialog.

-- 
Chess Griffin
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