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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16 February 2010 10:06, Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm currently working on the Apport blob processing story [1], whose
> aim is to make sure that +filebug doesn't time out when apport uploads
> an enormous blob (the problem being that the blob is currently
> processed in-request, so the bigger ones cause timeouts fairly
> regularly).
>
> I've already written the code for processing the blobs server-side
> using the Jobs system, so all that's left is to make +filebug aware of
> that system. The idea is that +filebug will check to see whether the
> blob has been processed before allowing the user to proceed. If it
> hasn't, +filebug will wait a while and check again; if it has,
> +filebug will use the processed data as normal.
>
> The idea is that we'll do this using Javascript eventually, but in the
> first iteration of this we're going to do it with meta refresh tags,
> since that's reasonably quick to develop, meanting that if we don't
> have time to finish the JS work this cycle the UI that does land will
> still be useful.
>
> I want the UI to be fairly simple - just a message and a spinner. I've
> attached a screenshot of what I'm thinking of. Suggestions and
> comments are welcome.

This looks quite nice. I wonder if it might be a bit nicer to re-use a
formatting device we already use elsewhere - the message box. I think
that putting the text inside a message box, as well as the spinnre,
right-aligned, might look more like other places in Launchpad where
the user has to pay attention to some new and extraordinary piece of
information. Another variation on this which I think is worth
exploring is placing the spinner in the icon position (overlapping the
top left corner) to create a new kind of message.