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

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 23:17:21 UTC 2015


2015-09-03 23:16 Axel Beckert:
>
>> 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"


I think that I prefer your first suggestion to this -- too many spaces
do not feel right to me.

You can compile from the current master branch and see the current one,
then modify the source (src/ui.cc) to see how it looks.

One thing to note is that the current one [1] is already 1 character too
long for 80-column-wide terminals, so the last-but-one character gets
removed (or some other rules apply, but that's the result).  Probably we
should also have this into consideration, and not use the current one.

Another way would be to use other colours for key shortcuts, or not so
bright white for descriptions, etc.  But that would mean to spend some
time changing and complicating the code a bit, and I feel that we're
spending too much time with this (unless we deem that it's worth
exploring using this for other reasons, e.g. more clarity with the menus
in general, independently of the matter of this bug report).

If we don't want to spend much more time, I feel that maybe settling on
your suggestion [2] is best.


[1] 'Preview & Download/Install/Remove Pkgs'
[2] 'Preview/Download/Install/Remove Pkgs'


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