[Bug 171] Review Request: rpmfusion-config-display - tool to manage proprietary graphic drivers

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171





--- Comment #17 from Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>  2009-01-04 20:54:54 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Most users won't be interested in this. They just want to use the recommended
> > driver. Directly offering beta and alternate drivers just confuse users. They
> > should be offered, but they should be a bit hidden.
> The drivers will only appear in the list once the user has installed them, as
> the xorg-x11-drv-foo package will have to place the config file into
> rpmfusion-config-display's directory before it can detect and configure the
> driver... So the variants will only be selectable as long as they've installed
> the driver first.

Wouldn't it be better the other way around? How is the user supposed to know
which driver he wants/needs? That's afaics one of the bigtgest problems users
run into right now...

E.g. the user in a ideal world would install rpmfusion-config-display and it
could tell the users which driver to install. Maybe rpmfusion-config-display
could even install the proper package automatically using yum or PK?

> > And in your latest mockup they are way to obvious. I'd even say that users will
> > accidentally select the 173 drivers in your design, as it looks like you need
> > to select one in that drop-down-box. 
> Sorry, bug in glade - the sensitivity of the drop-down menu is set to False, so
> that would be grayed it out and it would not respond to user interaction until
> the user clicked the "manual" radiobutton.

Hmmm. Maybe. But I still tend to think it's wrong to mix to different ways to
chose the driver.  

> > IOW: if you (for example) have five drivers to offer then use one scheme to
> > present them. E.g. five radiobuttons or one drop-down box with five entries.
> > Mixing the two variants will just confuse users. That why I added the checkbox
> > "show beta and alternate drivers"; after checing that the radiobutton lists
> > would need to be recreated and show the others as well.
> Normally, I'd agree here but I think that using the dropdown for the drivers is
> a better option as we don't want to confuse users with a bunch of radio buttons
> (all labeled nvidia-this and nvidia-that)...

Well I meant that the others should not be displayed at all (or greyed out) if
the checkbox "show beta and alternate drivers" isn't checked. But maybe your
way is better -- as mentioned earlier, I'm not expect in UI design


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