An alternative is that it may be possible to have a simple X progress bar using debconf-apt-progress and debconf's GNOME frontend. Neither would be particularly pretty, but they would be better than a black screen with various errors on it.
For what it's worth, while I'd like to improve the user experience here, at this point I'm only considering options for which the code substantially already exists and which are already known to be robust and functional, requiring only to be glued into oem-config. Anything else is more risky than just pulling the feature. Although debconf-apt-progress, whether with an ncurses-style frontend or an X-based frontend, is not going to be seamlessly integrated into the user experience provided by the rest of oem-config, it has the virtue of being a known-good component usable for this kind of thing and I don't think anything else is likely to be done in time with an acceptable risk of regressions. If both of these approaches are unacceptable, then I think we have no alternative but to default oem-config/remove to false and thus return to the previous situation where oem-config was left on the user's system after configuration (bug 210779). I have a slight reliability concern here, because I'd really rather get rid of oem-config's Upstart job entirely rather than risk it being accidentally run again later when it shouldn't be, and so I think this option carries its own problems. Still, it's possible. (As Robbie's IRC log notes in passing, the problem with trying to integrate smoothly into oem-config's UI is that we're in the process of ripping out all of oem-config's files from under it. Thus, IMO any option that involves removing oem-config before most of oem-config has exited carries a risk, which is why I'm not really comfortable with doing it in the normal package removal hooks at this point. I would be happy for us to experiment with that for Maverick.) -- During OEM-config removal, there is no graphical feedback https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/558593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
