[packagekit] Getting the update UI right

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 18:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote
> 
> >  Looks great to me. Waiting in anticipation! :-)
> 
> Here is a patch. Some things that are not done yet:
> 
> - if the yum backend takes a while to start up, the overview window
> occasionally comes up with the treeview completely empty, which looks
> disconcerting

Yes, I don't like that. Maybe we could show a bar and status in it's
place until the data has been got.

> - without the statusbar, we need some other way to signal activity
> when the backend takes too long, e.g when selecting another row, or
> when doing the force refresh. Maybe settting a busy cursor would be
> good.

I think we also need a way to see the progress of the update-system - I
think the progressbar in the middle like I suggested above might be
best.

Richard.