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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >>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 think that the hint should be targetted to people using aptitude for
> the first time(s), not people who already know what they are doing and
> configure non-default options -- I think that nobody pays attention to
> that line after a while.

Good point. Granted. :-)

> My opinion of the concrete proposals so far:
> 
> - "Preview & Perform Actions (Download/Install/...)"
> 
>  is the one that I find more descriptive, but as I said looks a bit
>  ugly/confusing in that place and quite long
> 
> - "Preview & Download/Install/Remove Pkgs"
> 
>  more clearly indicates the two steps, actions are more explicit, and
>  is shorter, but still has more spaces / looks odd

What about a compromise between these two:

- "Preview & Perform Download/Install/Remove Pkgs"

		Regards, Axel
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