Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> Absolutely, the way windows pop-up and disappear in YaST update is annoying.  
> Having established that we need a progress indicator and that it needs to be 
> in the same window, the question is can it be done easily?

Actually we already have a Progress module in YaST that draws those
"nice" full-screen progress dialogs but not everything can be solved
this way especially when one YaST module calls another modules.

You might already see some improvement, for instance, in the latest 10.3
alpha when initializing the installation environment and probing the
system. There used to be several pop-up windows but now, there is only
one progress dialog.

----------------------------------
:: Probing System ::

[x]  Probing disk controllers...
[x]  Loading drivers...
[->] Probing disks...
[ ]  Search for partitions

[==========75%===>_____]
----------------------------------

Of course, the detail-level of presented information is unclear because
the target customer might be either newbie or an experienced hacker.

If you are trying to discuss what should be shown and how, please, stop
to think about the target users, what they expect and whether (if we
present only the most important information) we could somehow show more
information on request (show details, or a "|>" icon known to GTK+ users).

And of course, if you want to change how the entire YaST behaves, write
also to the yast-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx mailing-list ;)

Thanks
Lukas

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Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer                     (xn--luk-gla45d)
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