https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375786
Bug ID: 375786
Summary: The new Discover GUI is a step back, wastes space and
provides too little feedback
Product: Discover
Version: 5.8.5
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: discover
Assignee: aleix...@kde.org
Reporter: el_zo...@gmx.net
Target Milestone: ---
As per the title, the new GUI of Discover has several areas which do nothing
more than wasting screen space and lacks proper feedback while performing
tasks.
E.g. when searching for updates, a simple progress bar would go a long way to
tell the user what's going on.
Similarly while fetching them, we get multiple small progress bars for the
different items, but it would be convenient to have one showing the overall
progress as well.
"Check for updates" seems to be hidden in the settings menu, which, frankly,
does not merit that name at all - it's a confusingly done list of the software
sources. Where are the actual settings? Like e.g. settings related to update
intervals? A list of sources that's readable for people with less experience in
the structure of the repository system?
Searching for updates via apt-get update makes the task-bar symbol show that
updates are available, yet to actually show them in Discover, Discover still
needs to search on it's own, which can be a bit confusing owning to the missing
progress bar.
Sorry if this sounds overly negative, but the basic software/update management
app has, in my opinion, always been a weak spot in KDE5 and it does seem to me
as if it will stay that way for some time yet.
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