Installation source operations take a lot of time
While installation source management in RC1 is a definite improvement (like: it actually works), there's a usability issue: Whatever operation I do in YaST Installation Source, it takes a lot of time, and there's no progress bar, no "please wait", no indication that it's not stuck. For example, after adding 2 sources from the internet and pressing "Finish", it took 30+ minutes for the window to close. I know that it must have been downloading repository metadata stuff from the internet, but the average user Joe will be very confused. Anyway, I suppose that this could be optimized later. After you guys pull this release through, you'll be heroes. It has been epic :-)
Op donderdag 13 april 2006 14:21, schreef Silviu Marin-Caea:
While installation source management in RC1 is a definite improvement (like: it actually works), there's a usability issue:
Whatever operation I do in YaST Installation Source, it takes a lot of time, and there's no progress bar, no "please wait", no indication that it's not stuck.
Just like Yast updates the sources without the popup from old-times. It's just like it is not gonna start.
For example, after adding 2 sources from the internet and pressing "Finish", it took 30+ minutes for the window to close.
It is in any way a slow way, in the old days it took max 2 minutes and now it takes a livetime, can't this be reduced?
I know that it must have been downloading repository metadata stuff from the internet, but the average user Joe will be very confused.
Anyway, I suppose that this could be optimized later.
I guess also that it can be optimezed later, but as you allready said: "average user Joe will be very confused." and that is not a good thing. For example: reviewers don't know it about the metapack (and they should not) and they will say that it is awful slow and not user-friendly....ooooopppss
After you guys pull this release through, you'll be heroes. It has been epic :-)
+10 ;-) Azerion
Silviu Marin-Caea
While installation source management in RC1 is a definite improvement (like: it actually works), there's a usability issue:
It worked during my tests as well - but I've heard reports from QA that it's not working for everybody :-(
Whatever operation I do in YaST Installation Source, it takes a lot of time, and there's no progress bar, no "please wait", no indication that it's not stuck.
For example, after adding 2 sources from the internet and pressing "Finish", it took 30+ minutes for the window to close.
Please open a bugreport and CC me on it. Yes, there should be some message. We're just adding something similar to the "Configure Online Update" part where it's not obvious either.
I know that it must have been downloading repository metadata stuff from the internet, but the average user Joe will be very confused.
Anyway, I suppose that this could be optimized later.
It should indeed.
After you guys pull this release through, you'll be heroes. It has been epic :-)
thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:42, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Please open a bugreport and CC me on it. Yes, there should be some message.
That would be a duplicate of a report I filed earlier - though i filed it as an enhancement - not a bug. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=159803 cb400f
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