Bug 22834

Summary: Usability regression
Product: PackageKit Reporter: Stepan Zastupov <redchrom>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Stepan Zastupov 2009-07-18 06:37:38 UTC
After the fresh F11 installation, I've thought packagekit is a most user friendly package manager front-end. But after updates I've noticed some usability regressions.

1) update-icon stopped to show transactions progress. I'll be glad to /apps/gnome-packagekit/update-icon/watch_active_transactions enabled by default again.
2) gpk-application starts in maximized window and does not store window size.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-07-20 08:24:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> 1) update-icon stopped to show transactions progress. I'll be glad to
> /apps/gnome-packagekit/update-icon/watch_active_transactions enabled by default
> again.

By design. Why do you think you need to interact with the icon for active transactions?

> 2) gpk-application starts in maximized window and does not store window size.

It should only do that if the screen size is very small -- what screen dimensions do you have?
Comment 2 Stepan Zastupov 2009-07-20 09:13:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> By design. Why do you think you need to interact with the icon for active
> transactions?

By the same reason why ./configure display message for each test :) Ok, gpk show progress on install, update, etc... so there is no reason to show transaction progress. But when updates available, gpk-update-icon provides drop-down menu with option "Install updates" which performs update silently. I'm not sure about current version, but previous version had described behavior.

> It should only do that if the screen size is very small -- what screen
> dimensions do you have?
> 
1280 x 800
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2009-07-20 09:41:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> By the same reason why ./configure display message for each test :) Ok, gpk
> show progress on install, update, etc... so there is no reason to show
> transaction progress. But when updates available, gpk-update-icon provides
> drop-down menu with option "Install updates" which performs update silently.
> I'm not sure about current version, but previous version had described
> behavior.

Yes, we're thinking about nuking that option altogether, and just providing a link to the update viewer.

> > It should only do that if the screen size is very small -- what screen
> > dimensions do you have?
> > 
> 1280 x 800

Right, then it's by design, as your height is very small.

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