Comment 2 for bug 1260523

I think we could make a multi-selection list widget (or use urwid for
it, irrelevant) and just use that. The tree can always be flattened
and I don't think we need a really fancy widget for such basic use
case.

What I worry about is how the user will be confused after making one
selection and seeing plainbox change that selection after dependencies
are added. Ideally we would have tri-state options, selected,
unselected, force-selected, with clearly different rendering and
per-selection changes so that selecting one item will immediately
select other items it depends on.

Thanks
ZK

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Sylvain Pineau
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> I'm open to suggestions to handle test selection, checkbox-cli used a very old-fashion selection mode based on letters and (+- to expand/collapse IIRC). The urwid interface had a nice widget to select tests but we dropped it as it's an external dependency.
> To select the suites I only used python curses bindings. But making a tree of tests in curses is a bit challenging but not impossible though).
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