Comment 46 for bug 280958

Besides the interesting use of whitespace, Martin's proposal has the same general drawback as the previous mockups: it results in the same type of information being presented, on the same page, in two different ways. The version number is shown in one way in the published versions section, and a different way in the PPA packages section. And the distribution series name is shown in one way in the published versions section, and a different way in the PPA packages section. The sections do present some different data too, for good reason, but a good design would present these different things (and convey untrustedness for PPA packages) in a way that maintains visual consistency in what the sections have in common. For example, the Version column in the PPA packages table should line up *exactly* with the Version column in the published versions table.

One simple way of making PPA packages look slightly foreign, besides using different icons, would be to give the whole PPA packages table a light grey background.