Uncomfortable keybinding in synaptic
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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synaptic |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In GUI applications CTRL-C is conventionally/
In CLI applications CTRL-C is conventionally/
Inside the Synaptic package manager (which is, of course, a GUI application) there is a special progress form which as an embedded console in it. Within this embedded console one can see all the messages printed during the installation process for each individual package. Further, it's possible to select text inside this console. Now, comes the question: What is the most intuitive thing to do when the user presses CTRL-C while viewing this form?
1) Copy the current text to clipboard?
2) Abort the installation of the current package and continue with the next one?
3) Abort the entire installation process?
The current answer is 2) but I'm not sure that's the least confusing or best choice.
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Basically, what just happened to me was that I selected some text inside this console and pressed CTRL-C. This way I was able to do this partial installation (some random package which was current installation was aborted etc).
This was a bad user experience for me.
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Suggested ways of fixing this (might be better way of course):
1) Show a dialog box asking of the user really wants the abort the installation of the package currently being installed.
2) Make CTRL-C copy the selected text instead.
3) Make CTRL-C do nothing.
Changed in synaptic: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This is a screenshot showing what happens if you press CTRL-C from package installation progress dialog.