GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 732810
Refresh updates should not be visibly split into two stages
Last modified: 2018-01-24 16:51:18 UTC
Created attachment 280011 [details] screencast of updates refresh * Visit the updates page * If gnome-software starts "looking for new updates," wait for it to finish. * Click the refresh button Now the refresh action will be split into two stages: 1) The user can continue browsing existing updates while the spinner runs next to the Stop button. 2) All updates are cleared and the user has to wait while "Checking for updates" is displayed Either (1) or (2) should be skipped. Otherwise, the user is left wondering what Software was doing during stage (1) if it seemingly didn't start checking for updates until halfway through. (I took this screencast with the patch from bug #732527 applied, but that patch does not introduce this issue.)
Whoah, that looks really bad in the screencast. I see the second stage too, but it's only for a fraction of a second here.
Isn't it useful to see the existing update descriptions as you're checking for the latest ones?
(In reply to Richard Hughes from comment #2) > Isn't it useful to see the existing update descriptions as you're checking > for the latest ones? I guess, but in that case you'd need to not get rid of the existing update descriptions at some arbitrary point halfway through. And you would not want to get rid of the existing update descriptions when updates are downloaded, either, because then the user could be frustrated that what he was reading disappeared. So it's probably best to transition to the spinner view immediately.
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