[Aptitude-devel] Bug#247487: aptitude: Better description text for 'g' in the title bar

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hello Bernhard,

2004-05-05 13:43 Bernhard Trummer:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.14.1-2
>Severity: minor
>
>Hello.
>In the title bar, the description text for the 'g' key is always:
>"Download/Install/Remove Pkgs". However, compared to 'u', one has
>to press 'g' two times to really download, install and/or remove
>any packages.
>
>So I suggest to display only this description text, if the next
>press of the 'g' key really will start the download/installation.
>In all other cases, a different description text should be shown,
>such as "Preview changes to be done", or something similar.
>
>Thank you.

I think that the request makes sense, but that line is static and always
the same in all views (so it's a bit of a detour to change the code of
that part to suit this particular issue); and in any case it is supposed
to be a extremely terse reference, like a tooltip, and there is not
space for many explanations.

Another argument for not changing it is that it has been like this for
more than a decade (as this report shows), without many complaints about
it.

However, as I say I think that the request makes sense, so to take this
into account, I was thinking in changing it to something like "Preview &
Perform Actions (Download/Install/...)", but looks a bit ugly/confusing
with so many words and spaces (most other elements in a menu are 1 key +
1 word).

I later settled on prepending just 'Preview & ' to the same text, so it
becomes: 'Preview & Download/Install/Remove Pkgs'.

I will consider to change it to something else, or to leave it as it
was, so if someone feels strongly in one way or the other please tell
me, preferably before the next release.

Otherwise this change goes into the next upload, so marking it as
pending.


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>