Editing Task:Improving the Application manager
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== Main view == | == Main view == | ||
The main view is a user's portal to Maemo software, it's largely fine right now, but not very interesting. It needs a way to draw in new users and get them interested in the software available to them. | The main view is a user's portal to Maemo software, it's largely fine right now, but not very interesting. It needs a way to draw in new users and get them interested in the software available to them. | ||
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+ | === Background processing without indication === | ||
+ | It will just get stuck here (applies to other screens) when doing things in the background when you try to do some operation (e.g. install from web or from a deb file using the file manager, or even edit catalogs). Attempting to do anything else including the same thing which you don't know if it received, it just says "Operation in progress..." with no way to abort, no measure of progress, and it can sit there for a very long time with no changes and appearing it has crashed. There should be at minimum a busy status (e.g. a gtk field that changes to text saying something like "Busy Updating..."), but even more a progress indicator and/or some indication of what operation is in progress (did it get the instruction to install the right thing or did I tap the wrong thing or is it doing something else entirely?). If it is doing something unrelated or even interruptable (updating the package list, looking for upgrades), there should be a way to abort. This could replace or add to the Button bar noted below | ||
[[Image:Main-view-mockup.png|thumb|250px|Mock-up of the main view]] | [[Image:Main-view-mockup.png|thumb|250px|Mock-up of the main view]] |
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