Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-14 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 14:17, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Frederik Nnaji wrote on 09/09/10 12:28: > >... > > The most unlikely thing to happen is that i press a button or switch, > > only to be left guessing for a quarter of a minute, whether anything has > > been invoked, activated or started b

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Nnaji wrote on 09/09/10 12:28: >... > The most unlikely thing to happen is that i press a button or switch, > only to be left guessing for a quarter of a minute, whether anything has > been invoked, activated or started by my action. > > http:

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Sohail Mirza
I just performed the Meerkat install on a reasonably powerful laptop today, for the first time. There were a number of times during the install that the Location selection and subsequent dialogues became completely unresponsive, severely impacting the user experience during the install. This is m

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Thanks for your thoughts, this is a low hanging fruit in my personal opinion, that's how it caught my attention. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 15:25, Sohail Mirza wrote: > Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show > both side-by-side. Replacing the text would likely lead

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Sohail Mirza
Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show both side-by-side. Replacing the text would likely lead to confusion as to what action was originally invoked, especially in circumstances where further feedback is delayed. :) On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Benstead

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Luke Benstead
This is not just isolated to the installer. It would be nice if every button press system wide showed some kind of indication that the click was received. What might be nice is if the button text disappeared and a little circular progress indicator showed for a second or two before being replaced b

[Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Dear all, after hesitating for quite some time now, i installed Maverick on my production machines, and it is running like a charm! Thanks to the everybody @ Canonical for all the great work, thanks to the entire community for making this possible in the first place ;) Reliability: As in the phys