[packagekit] A new design update viewer

[Matthias Clasen]

On Jan 8, 2008 6:15 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:49 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> > It might also be useful if we could work in some way with the summary
> > page to let a user just install all security updates, for instance.
>
> I've merged the new-look update viewer. Expect a few teething problems
> but I think it's lots better than the old one. Please yell if you find
> any problems or have any suggestions.
>

Sure. It looks better, agreed. Here are some unsorted observations:

- I think the summaries "Normal update (2)" should either be plural
"Normal updates (2)" or, even better, use ngettext and make it "2
normal updates".

- It is somewhat irritating that one can select the rows on the
summary page, when there is nothing that you can do with the
selection. Suggest to make the treeview non-selectable here. Same for
the "nothing to do" screen.

- You moved the reboot indicator out of the text view again... I liked
it better inside. And it causes the following regression: if you
deselect the package, the text view is correctly hidden, but the
reboot indicator stays around.

- You turned the horizontal scrollbar on for the text view - I had
that intentionally disabled, since it is very hard to get the resizing
right with it. It is really annoying to see the scrollbar next to the
text view, while there is plenty of free space in the list above, and
no way to resize the text view...

- "Update Package" has an icon, "Update System" doesn't. Either both
need an icon, or neither.

- It feels to me like there ought to be a way to get back to the overview page.

- The double progress bars you get for the actual update are very
disorienting. The smaller one seems to track the larger progress. And
the larger one constantly tells me wrong times.
I did a larger update, and it was infuriating to constantly be told
that it would take 30 seconds, or 15, or 20, only to be greeted by the
next empty progress bar after some (usually longer than promised)
time. Best to lose the time estimates altogether, since we won't be
able to get them reliable enough to make sense.

- The list on the progress page is very unclear. It took me quite a
while to figure out that it is supposed to list all the little parts
of the big transaction. I don't think we _have_ to reuse the list with
similar icons and package names on every single screen...better to
just have a single field for the currently running part, like the old
progress screen had


Matthias