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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> > 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.

Not necessarily. That's the default setting. You can also configure
that "g" immediately starts doing things without the preview.

> 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'.

Which is wrong if the preview has been disabled in the config.

> 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.

What about 'Preview/Download/Install/Remove Pkgs'?

		Regards, Axel
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