Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Frederik Nnaji wrote on 09/09/10 12:28:
>...
> The most unlikely thing to happen is that i press a button or switch,
> only to be left guessing for a quarter of a minute, whether anything has
> been invoked, activated or started by my action.
>
> http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lkl4Jd-I/AAAAAAAAByc/ttFY5lOV3cA/ubuntu-10.10-screenshot.png
> and
> http://lh4.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lk9DqKYI/AAAAAAAAByk/w27hJZiRIII/ubuntu-10.10-installer2.png
> show dialogs containing "Forward" buttons in the installation dialog,
> which show no feedback upon click.
>
> The Forward button should react in realtime when clicked: at the moment
> there is no reaction for about 10-20 seconds.
>...

Evan Dandrea, the installer maintainer, has just shown me that two
things happen when you click "Forward": (1) the button becomes
insensitive, and (2) the cursor changes to a busy cursor.

He's making a temporary change to (2) today, so that the cursor will be
a busy cursor even if you have moved it outside the installer window.
<http://paste.ubuntu.com/493568/>

For Natty, possibly we'll add a spinner somewhere inside the installer
window, that appears when the next screen is taking more than a second
or two to display (as we do in Ubuntu Software Center in Maverick, for
example).

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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