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usability, saving "profiles", removing items
- To save a set of transport package settings, it seems that you have to create a "profile" for it. This is done in the "Select a profile" pulldown in PackMan, where you select "Creat new profile form this...". This means you have a Package name and a Profile name. I find this supremely unintuitive.
I would propose the following improvement: have a button for "Save this package profile" and save the package by it's user-supplied name and version number. Do away with the separate profile name.
- It is not at all clear how you get a fresh Package setting. I think it must be a bug that if you click on an item added to the package, such as a plugin name, and then hit delete, you get kicked out of PackMan and into the Package Manager. Going back to packMan, find yourself with a new Package.
I propose a button for "Create new Package Profile" and another for "Delete this Package Profile". And there can be a pulldown to select an existing package profile as well.
- You can add directories to a transport package, and I think it would make more sense if you could browse the directories, since this functionality already exists in the manager. Adding single files would make sense as well.
- Next to items added under any tab, it would be helpful to have "remove item" links/icons next to each, as right clicking for a contextual menu is not an intuitive way to remove things from the profile. (Sorry, I'm a mac user, and the revo manager kinda sucks, as you can clearly see form the forums... buck the trend!)