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Re: Two new "categories" created. Comment needed
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:22:32PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >FWIW, it would be a trivial patch to the chooser code to, for example,
> > >grey out packages in the "_RemovedPackages" category (once we settle on
> > >the name).
> >
> > I like this idea, if by "greyed out" you also mean unselectable.
> >
> > >Another thing I was thinking of was the "if it's removed, why is it
> > >selected" attitude. That, however, needs something more than just keeping
> > >the other categories around...
> >
> > Hmm. Maybe you don't. If it is greyed out but still gets selected in
> > some way, then I don't think it will be clear what's going on.
> >
> > cgf
>
> Nope, I just meant the color change to grey. However, it's better than
> what's there now...
> Igor
Besides, if it were unselectable, there would be no way to revert to the
previous version (which wasn't in "_Removed" at the time)...
Igor
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