Bug 23910

Summary: attempt to search while "Starting" -- nothing happens, no feedback
Product: PackageKit Reporter: Denny Crane <anon.e.mouse.bug>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: low CC: anon.e.mouse.bug
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Denny Crane 2009-09-13 14:06:59 UTC 
When opening gpk-application, the note at the bottom says "Starting", and if the user types or pastes text into the search box and hits enter or clicks "Find", no search will be attempted, and there is no feedback for the user.

Firstly, I recognize that the "Starting" note is supposed to indicate to the user that the program is not yet ready, but it is not particularly visible, and the user shouldn't be able to submit a search if the program isn't yet ready anyway.

Suggested solution: gray-out/disable the interface the same way as is done while installing software (or at least gray-out the search box) until the program is ready for input.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-09-14 03:24:40 UTC 
We'll be able to fix this in 2.29.x properly when we switch to the glib2 async packagekit bindings.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2010-01-20 08:22:36 UTC 
We can now search async while "starting" in git master. Yay :-)

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