On 11/4/21 2:24 PM, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
To be honest, usually that information goes too fast, so it is nearly impossible for me to find something useful there.
And now imagine the download and installation will happen in parallel...
I usually find release notes quite useful. If release notes are informative and well-written, and think it might be a good idea.
The release notes are usually too technical, so they might not be interesting all users. On the other hand I personally looked at them several times already, which I cannot tell about the slideshow in the past... There is one advantage: the release notes are really updated for each SP (or Leap) release, compare it with the slideshow note below.
+1 to Josef proposal. We could add "remaining time" information but only if it is kind of accurate. If it is going from 5 minutes, to half and hour to 1 minute again, then it is better not to show anything.
I'd avoid any time estimations. They are really inaccurate, we got lots of bug reports about that. It can never be perfect, there are so many variables so there always be some cases when it estimates completely wrong numbers. E.g. fast SSD vs. rotational disk, local repository vs. internet repository, slow network vs. fast network, a small RPM but with long %post script... Also the problem is that the estimation is very inaccurate at the beginning and changing a lot (because of too little data). It gets better over the time, but these days the installations are pretty quick, at the time when the estimation settles down and proposes some realistic value the installation is almost over...
IMHO this is the best opportunity to get rid of that slideshow for good. It has been in zombie state for many years, yet it was always in the way.
Yes, please, let's get rid of it.
IMHO a slideshow would be nice to have. But it must contain some interesting features, nice screenshots, etc... It must be really interesting for readers. And most importantly it must be regularly updated and maintained, showing still the same texts and outdated screenshots is worse than no slideshow at all. And because I expect nobody will maintain the slideshow for us then rather do not support it at all...
Thinking a little bit further, would it make sense to unify the packages installation progress and the finish clients screen into a single one? After all, we could display a message below the progress bar ("installing packages", "installing the bootloader", etc.).
What do you think?
I do not know if that would be possible to merge all these steps, esp. how to compute the overall progress. Package installation 90% and the finish clients 10%? That would have the same problem as the time estimation mentioned above. I'd rather take smaller steps, let's improve the package installation first and then maybe (maybe!) think about that unification. -- Ladislav Slezák YaST Developer SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. Corso IIa Křižíkova 148/34 18600 Praha 8