On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:40:25AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org was heard to say: > 1) gimp > 2) gnome-user-guide > 3) libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 > 4) libwebkit-1.0-2 > 5) midori > 6) yelp > > Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000) > > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 3 > Action "3": Removing libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 > > ****Aggg... you prompted for [Y/n/q/] but instead I typed 3... and you > accepted it... anyway, the prompt should be [Y/n/q/1/2/3/4/5/6] then.
This is a deliberate decision. If I listed every option that the prompt accepted (even leaving aside the numbers listed next to choices) then the prompt would be something like [Y/n/q/a/r/,/./e/x/+/+M/-/_/=/:/&M/&m/?] which I don't think is actually useful since you need to press "?" to find out what any of those extra options mean anyway. The main preview prompt would be even worse. The one thing that might make sense would be to add an ellipsis, [Y/n/q/?/...] assuming that users would actually read that as "there are more options, press '?' to view them" and not "enter three periods to do something." Maybe I could help with that by omitting the last slash: [Y/n/q/? ...] or even [Y/n/q/... (?)] But I think all of those options are pushing it as far as concisely conveying the message "press ? to see more options." As far as the numbers go, I would certainly list them as "1-6" and not list every number individually (hint: some solutions have a few dozen choices). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
