Package selection usability improvements

[Javier Romero]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

Right now in Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 2, KpackageKit presents a few usability flaws in my opinion:

1 The "Action" images don't have a hover effect, making dificult for the user to know that they can be pressed to change it status and make something.

2 All the images are shown greyed out, the ones that identifies installed packages should be shown in full color, and for the ones not installed, maybe the best would be not showing the image at all. That way it's really easy and fast to know whats installed and what not.

3 The image selected to represent the "Install" action is not the best to reflect this, as it represents more a download. I think that it should be changed for other that works better. In my opinion, the previous +, - worked better as they are pretty easy to understand from the very first time that the program is used.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 18 00:59:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kpackagekit 0.4.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: kpackagekit
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64

[Ben Court (descendent87)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is a Feature Request to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at [WWW] https://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This should be sent on upstream to bugs.kde.org.

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

KPackageKit on maverick has probably all these issues fixed, can I close this bug?

[Javier Romero (javi-azuaga)]

It's ok for me.

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

Ok, thanks.