From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup libsolv, v2] Let the user review added dependencies
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93f163b3-7867-8eff-a731-df6f210f301f@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180122173720.10584-1-kbrown@cornell.edu>
On 2018-01-22 10:37, Ken Brown wrote:
> If the solver found no problems but added packages to resolve
> dependencies, ask the user whether they want to review the added
> packages before proceeding.
>
> If they answer Yes, go back to the chooser with the 'Pending' view
> selected. The implementation adds several new members to the
> PrereqChecker class so that the latter can communicate with the
> chooser page.
Would it not be better, quicker, and easier, and to just show the updated
Pending view directly and unconditionally, without another popup dialogue box?
I think that's what most of us would expect from a UI display: just update the
displayed packages, if not being asked for confirmation that we really want to
do something possibly detrimental.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-22 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-22 17:37 Ken Brown
2018-01-22 21:51 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-01-22 22:40 ` Ken Brown
2018-01-23 1:07 ` Brian Inglis
2018-01-23 15:05 ` cyg Simple
2018-01-24 20:30 ` Jon Turney
2018-01-25 3:25 ` Ken Brown
2018-01-25 3:57 ` Ken Brown
2018-01-28 18:11 ` Jon Turney
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