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Re: Prefab Program Selections (was: RE: Regrouping on "installation profile" idea)
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:20:26PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>So, does ".Task-oriented Bundles" make sense to people? Or
>".Usage-oriented Bundles"?
I think either makes sense, yes. Could you do an ASCII representation of
what you'd expect the screen to look like?
>>>[*] Of course, it'd be ".TASK-ORIENTED_BUNDLES"...
>>
>>I really don't like the need for underscores or dashes and I *really*
>>don't like the upper case stuff. When I see all upper case on a screen
>>I think there's something not set up right somewhere.
>
>Well, it'll have to be attention-grabbing. Barring color, ALL-CAPS is
>the only way we can do this, right? The underscores you are probably
>right about -- I was just trying to avoid the need to quote the
>category name. BTW, the dash in this case is not a divider, but a
>legitimate hyphen -- it'd be there even in the normal case.
Aren't these already going to be sorted first, owing to the "."? Could we
use '***' instead of '.', maybe? That would be attention grabbing.
>Even though this has to be compatible with the current versions of
>setup, I'd still like to add some magic to setup to support something
>like this (e.g., auto-expand any category that starts with a ".", or
>reorder columns in category view so that the package name comes first).
Yes, I think the GUI needs to be updated at some point to handle these
properly.
cgf