https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475343
Bug ID: 475343
Summary: Add more natural animations for the "time when app
updates are downloaded"
Classification: Applications
Product: Discover
Version: master
Platform: unspecified
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Updates (interactive)
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: amanita+kdeb...@mailbox.org
CC: aleix...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
When intensely looking at the UX of discover, its not fully smooth.
I will list the current tabs, and how they "feel"
- Start: perfect, loading icon and all. But why is it the only loading bar with
stripes?
- Installed: Uhm why does it use a different loading animation? otherwise also
nice
- settings: also good, some buttons appear after the list
- about: quite nice, authors or button seem to slide out?
- update: again another loading animation, no stripes in the bar. Okay UX
A problem I have with the view of apps getting updated, that there is a slow
bar going up for the Download of applications, which is very nice. But then
after the download, the app is installed locally, that takes time but seems to
give no feedback to Discover.
Proposal: Can the install process also send the progress information to
discover? If so, another loading bar (or something more creative) could
indicate that.
Currently, after 100% is reached, there is a pause of no changes at all. No
movements in the color of the install bar, nothing. This is so flat! It gives
the user literally no idea that Discover has not crashed, as it should clearly
do something, and report that back to the user.
Then, release, the apps start to disappear, as their updates have been
installed.
I would not make them disappear? F-Droid on Android does it differently, they
are marked as "installed" but dont disappear. You can read update logs (which
Discover / Flathub currently also dont support?) and see how big the install
was. To what version.
"The work your Software store has done for you", so that people say 'Discover
is a good software store!' "
Then after the updates, you have a blank big screen, showing
updated
Thats it! not the apps with their versions, not the core OS Components like
- Distro version
- KDE Version
- updated apps
Could have a nice background UI, so that you
Also, when the "updated" window shows and you just wait, it seems that some
packend initiates a update-check, so for a moment "checking for updates" and
the progress bar show again. Every 3 min or so.
The exact same, but with clear percentage can be seen in the side bar, so this
view is not needed. Why not keep the "updated" screen, avoiding this "flicker",
as it has already updated 5min ago.
Btw, is this a bug? Should either
- Flatpak: Flathub, Igalia, Appcenter, PureOS
- rpm-ostree Fedora
- firmware updater
- KNEwStuff backend
- vendor directory (Lenovo)
- lvfs
cause update checks every 3 (!) minutes?
I will ask this in KDE Discuss too, to get more opinions on the UI changes.
I will also try to make screenrecordings of everything
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