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<div class="im"> I think that's a good idea. Do you have any experience with automatic<br>graph layout? (say, the algorithms used by dot and neato)<br><font color="#888888"><br> Daniel<br></font></div></blockquote>
<div>I've heard of the force directed placement since i've done some work with placement and routing in FPGA( I use SA though) . i think neato's work base on that algo and i'll do some research on that. The key part is implement the algo, however making it more pratical to user will include some more utilities such as zoom in/out, floating tips , redirecting package page when double-clicker etc. </div>
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<div>and i give a second thought on aptitude UI. More user-friendly doesn't have to means more nifty tools or pages. Since aptitude is a package management front-end, it should apear to be 'organized'. Aptitude 'organize' packages for users, so it is important to let user feel the packages are well orgnized. Even the packages are not well installed, they should get these infomation easily through a well designed UI and user will be likely to use this UI since they feel proud that they can control thousands of packages in their system. To achieve this, i think some parts of the UI need to be reorganized and more ultilities added if necessary. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Sha Liu</div></div>