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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 20:56:56 +0100
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Subject: Hierarchical task selection?
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Package: tasksel
Severity: wishlist

Hi

The task selection menu has become so crowded with tasks that it
became almost unuseable for novice users.

Besides renaming packages which are not ment for tasksel, a
hierarchical selection would probably be helpful as well.
Especially if the user could select all tasks of a category by
selecting the category, without even having looked at all the
tasks the category contains.

Example:
o at the beginning:
    science

o fully expanded:
    science
        |- physics
        |- mathematics
        |   |- analysis
	|   `- statistics
        `- biology

One could select mathematics without expanding the tree further.

IMHO this would make tasksel more useable for both first-time users
and the more advanced ones.

ciao, 2ri
--=20
"Never" is almost always earlier than you think.

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