Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just performed the Meerkat install on a reasonably powerful laptop today, for the first time.

There were a number of times during the install that the Location selection and subsequent dialogues became completely unresponsive, severely impacting the user experience during the install.  This is made all the more apparent because it seems that the idea is to have the user perform those steps concurrent to the install, thus saving them time spent on the installation.  It doesn't feel like time saved when you're waiting for a dialogue or button press.  The "set it and forget it" installation in Lucid was a superior user experience.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for your thoughts, this is a low hanging fruit in my personal opinion, that's how it caught my attention.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 15:25, Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show both side-by-side.  Replacing the text would likely lead to confusion as to what action was originally invoked, especially in circumstances where further feedback is delayed.  :)

Luke was suggesting replacing the text temporarily only..

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It would be nice if every button press system wide showed some kind of indication that the click was received.

yes, i can second that, an interface element that doesn't react instantly feels dead.

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