GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789699
Change Install button to "Installing" instantly when pressed
Last modified: 2019-07-05 14:35:45 UTC
When opening a font file in gnome-font-viewer, an Install button is present (for not-already-installed fonts). Clicking this button doesn't seem to do anything for a second or two, and then it changes to "Installed" (and is set insensitive). It would be nice if the button when clicked immediately reacted by going insensitive and saying "Installing...", so there isn't that moment of doubt that nothing has happened at all. (It would then obviously change to "Installed" or "Install failed" when the install process completes, a second or so later.)
In my case nothing happens when you press the "install" button and after one or two minutes I close the application. When reopening the same typography appears as installed. It is confusing and there should be better feedback when installing a new typeface.
(In reply to Bastián Díaz from comment #1) > In my case nothing happens when you press the "install" button and after one > or two minutes I close the application. When reopening the same typography > appears as installed. It is confusing and there should be better feedback > when installing a new typeface. If you are running a Wayland session, most probably, your are suffering from Bug #786693. The font configuration update signal is not implemented in gtk+'s wayland backend and gnome-font-viewer relies on it to monitor installed font list...
Created attachment 366047 [details] [review] Freeze button while installing new font Note that this also set a minimum width of 100px for the install button, thus avoiding weird UI moves during installation.
Updated and submitted on GitLab as GNOME/gnome-font-viewer!1 [1]. Comments are very welcome! [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-font-viewer/merge_requests/1
Closing this, the above MR has been merged long ago.