Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 03:50:21 pm Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:

> For example : Explain me how flashing 20/30 progress bar with
> downlaoding../parsing... messages help while I am adding installation
> source.
> As a engineer I can see clearly its a "developer testing" code that
> helps to see if download/parsing is going OK. How a end user will
> benefit from this messages. Also that flashing is annoying enough to
> nuke the programmers den.

Aaha, I can tell you about this!

Before those downloading/parsing progress windows were added, there was 
nothing.  This "nothing" would take a lot of time, during which time the 
application was busy with that downloading and parsing that is now shown.  
What was the result of nothing shown?  80% of users thought that something is 
worng and killed the window, the process etc and started it all over again.  
Also a lot complained that it's taking too long, suse sucks and such.

Now with those progress windows, users see that something is indeed going on, 
even if it looks like nonsense to most of them.  And people understand that 
if downloading stuff off the net takes long it's not the fault of the 
distribution.

This does not change the fact that it's still taking too long :-) but at least 
it offers an explanation and a diversion to the user.

So, it's a good thing.

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