[Lazarus] Install/Uninstall package form: "Do not install" & more

[Maxim Ganetsky]

13.09.2013 11:31, Reinier Olislagers пишет:
> The Install/Uninstall package form has two lists:
> a) installed packages (or those marked for installation. Caption above:
> "Install"
> b) available but not installed packages. Caption: "Do not install"
>
> WHen I started using Lazarus, the "Do not install" caption made it
> unclear that this is actually the list of available packages, and
> Lazarus will not actually e.g. uninstall anything that is in that list
> when you click Saven and rebuild IDE. (I know, I might be easily
> confused, not RTFM etc).
>
> 1. Would it be a good idea to rename the caption to "Available"?

I improved captions in r42784. Please test.

> Some additional remarks/requests:
> 2. In additition to the red overlay for packages marked for
> uninstalleation, and the green one for packages marked for installation,
> perhaps a hint/tooltip could appear mentioned "Marked for
> installation"/"Marked for removal" so people who don't know what those
> icons mean are told? Alternatively I suppose mentioning this in Package
> info in current state may also be considered.

These descriptions are present in 'Package Info' memo, as far as I can see.

> 3. Perhaps it's a good idea to have a search box for the left list
> (installed packages) as well... depends on the amount of stuff you have
> installed but it can be useful.

Please create a feature request for this.

> 4. A long time ago I sent a reminder to package maintainers that it
> would be a good idea to fill out the Description field of the package...
> There's still quite some packages that have no info (aarrebase,
> cocoa_pkg, customdrawn, demoidehelp, .... etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Reinier

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