Re: Diety UI draft
Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com> wrote:
> Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> > I'm not so sure. Knowing the amount of space to install the set of
> > selected packages would be very useful for deciding what to include
> > and what not to include in a given installation. One of the biggest
> > problems with the current dselect is that you cannot figure out how
> > much disk space is going to be needed by the current selections, so
> > it's easy to fill up the hard drive without even noticing it.
> >
> > I think it should be a concern of the user interface to provide some
> > kind of feedback about space comsuption of the installation. Many
> > of us (specially the newbies) would appreciate that a lot.
>
> Perhaps we are talking about two different things.
>
> It sounds like you're concerned about how much space it will take
> to install the currently selected packages. There is already a
> guage of how much space is available and how much space your
> current package selections will take on the selection screen
> status bar. Please read:
>
> http://www.verisim.com/~behanw/deity/deity-ui_0.10.html#sel_status
Your totally rigth here, I misunderstood the point. Thanks for the
clarification.
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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