[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Control Facility Improvements

[Eben Eliason]

I can sympathize with this perspective.  Traditionally, software
updates only update software which is already installed. In this
perspective, I could see one expecting all those activities already
installed being selected by default, and others left unchecked for one
to select as desired.

On the other hand, I appreciate that our primary use case is for
deployments and entire schools of kids, where the set of activities
chosen for the update has been carefully selected by the school, and
might include a handful of new or customized activities for the
upcoming school year, for instance.  In such a scenario, selecting all
by default is clearly desired.

I'm not sure what the answer is.  Offering a flag with the activity
pack somehow could work, I suppose, but makes the idea less pure.
Maybe adding buttons for "select all/deselect all" and "select
installed" would be better, to make managing the selection easier and
more exposed, could work.  Or, perhaps better, we could offer a
"smart" activity pack in the list for "Installed activities" which
then presents a list of all installed activities (checked by default,
just like the other activity packs).

- Eben


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM, genesee <genesee.gbh at gmail.com> wrote
>> One more? Software Updates defaults all available Activities pre-selected.
>> Their boxes checked, in other words. I would rather choose the updates I
>> want than de-select the ones I don't. Some of the Activity Groups are huge.
>> It's a hassle clicking on the many not wanted to download a few.
>
> Right-click, "unselect all".  Voila!
>
> If only all our 9.1 features were already implemented. ;-)
>  --scott
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