[haiku-development] Re: SoftwareUpdater DR1 testers requested
- From: "Humdinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "humdingerb" for DMARC)
- To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:44:16 +0100
Hi Brian!
On 23 February 2017 at 22:39, Brian Hill <brianh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have not had an opportunity to test the problem solver at all yet.
Me neither...
But otherwise, it looks like it's working perfectly.
Only a few comments.
The window title should be the app name "SoftwareUpdater" and there
should be sentence-casing everywhere ("View details", "Update package
details").
In the final window:
- "Old activation state backed up..." is an information that's, if
anything, confusing to the general end user and unnecessary to the
power user. Every update results in a new state with the current
date/time in the folder name.
- I'd prefer "OK" to "Quit! in the bottom, as the feel of the window
is more like a BAlert.
I take it the SoftwareUpdater is in its current form only an interim
solution until it's integrated into HaikuDepot with only a
"notification daemon" checking for updates regularly. Then the
following enhancement suggestions can be ignored:
Instead of the button "View Details", a hidden "expando" widget to
unfold the details might be nicer. See Installer's "Show optional
packages" or GetInfo's "Permissions".
-> no modal window
-> can be left open while updating
Once the user clicks "Update now", the progress of updating and the
final window would be more appropriate as a notification. That also
has a nice progress bar and would avoid the changing window width when
downloading packages with differently long file names.
In any case: very nice work!
Regards,
Humdinger
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