On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Denis,
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I was just reading the release notes about the latest 4.2 release, and I
> > would like to share my thoughts about the new experimental upgrade
> wizard:
> >
> > 1) During the first step, I found the labels of the button "Skip" and
> > "Cancel" to be potentially misleading. I quickly make the analogy with a
> > typical application upgrade wizard on my Mac, which say "Skip this
> version"
> > or "Remind me later". But this is exactly the contrary, "Skip" here means
> > "Remind me later", and "Cancel" means "Skip this version". So I propose
> to
> > use more explicit labels, either those proposed above or any other that
> > avoid the confusion.
>
> I agree that these two buttons can be misleading, that's why I added a
> hint message in the first (welcome) step and also tool tips (on mouse
> hover) but I guess they can be easily overlooked. I'm open to change
> their labels. One of the reasons I didn't use a multi word label is
> because it doesn't look good in upper case, and that's the style we
> use on buttons..
>
>
Hi,


> Caty had a few ideas on how to replace these two buttons with
> something more intuitive but I wasn't fully convinced :) I'm sure
> she's eager to show them to you.
>

:) Proposal at
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/DistributionWizardActions

Thanks,
Caty


>
> >
> > 2) During the second step, the extensions that are incompatible but do
> not
> > have a potential update seems to not be listed. Once again, this could be
> > misleading, since you naturally expect the wizard to have proposed the
> > whole solution for your upgrade. I think that the wizard should also tell
> > you which extension has been disabled for incompatibilities during this
> > step.
>
> Me and Thomas talked about putting this in a separate step, the "clean
> up" step, where the user can view and uninstall extensions that are no
> longer supported (are invalid and don't have upgrades available). We
> decided to leave this steps for later since the 4.2 release was
> already delayed.
>
> >
> > WDYT ?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Marius
>
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