[packagekit] Getting the update UI right

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that might work.

>
>  > - 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.

Hmm, in my git build, when I click "Update System", the progress
screen comes up just the same...