Bugzilla – Bug 374500
Feature Request: Redesign of Media Type Dialog
Last modified: 2008-04-03 10:22:27 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.
Created attachment 204399 [details] Screenshot of the current situation of the media type selection
Created attachment 204400 [details] Suggested 'new' dialog
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?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346718 ***
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!
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.
Ah, thanks for the info Josh.
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 :-)