Bug 374500

Summary:	Feature Request: Redesign of Media Type Dialog
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Thomas Meindl <twm.mst>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Schmidkunz <mschmidkunz>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	chrubis, guitarist198
Version:	Alpha 3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Screenshot of the current situation of the media type selection Suggested 'new' dialog

Description Thomas Meindl 2008-03-27 17:22:01 UTC

The Yast Module 'Software Repositories' opens at the button 'Add' a dialog where one can select the specific type of installation media - have a look at the first attached screenshot.
It is now a bit complex and therefore I would suggest to make a distinction between the local devices and the computer network (see the second attachment).
This means only to divide the two topics into two groupboxes with some space to the left and right.

Comment 1 Thomas Meindl 2008-03-27 17:22:59 UTC

Created attachment 204399 [details]
Screenshot of the current situation of the media type selection

Comment 2 Thomas Meindl 2008-03-27 17:23:40 UTC

Created attachment 204400 [details]
Suggested 'new' dialog

Comment 3 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-03-31 18:50:59 UTC

I agree with you, that the current design of the "Software Repositories"` "Add" dialog is quite complex.
Another idea would be to select the connection type to the repository in a combo box and the options for the repositories (e.g. enter URL) are displayed below.
See:
http://en.opensuse.org/Image:New_add_repo_community.png
http://en.opensuse.org/Image:New_add_repo_ftp.png

What do you think about that?

Comment 4 Josh J 2008-03-31 23:05:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346718 ***

Comment 5 Thomas Meindl 2008-04-01 19:55:58 UTC

In reply of comment #3:
I think your new design is a good solution. One can easily access the right media type and it follows the design of other new yast dialogues. So I would be perfectly happy with this.
Thanks!

Comment 6 Josh J 2008-04-01 20:27:58 UTC

Similar redesigns can be seen in bug 346718.  These designs also utilize the combo box as a method of choosing the media.  (Were Martin's based on those?)  Anyways, a discussion can be found on the that bug report that will supplement the discussion here.

Comment 7 Thomas Meindl 2008-04-02 06:19:35 UTC

Ah, thanks for the info Josh.

Comment 8 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-04-03 10:22:27 UTC

In reply of comment #6:
I didn't know about the ideas proposed in Bug #346718
but it is a good sign to me, when different people have similar ideas to solve a problem :-)