[Tails-dev] Startup notification for the Incremental Upgrade…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Para: The Tails public development discussion list
Temas antigos: Re: [Tails-dev] Please test incremental upgrades (from 0.22~rc1 to 0.22~rc2)
Asunto: [Tails-dev] Startup notification for the Incremental Upgrader [Was: Please test incremental upgrades (from 0.22~rc1 to 0.22~rc2)]
intrigeri wrote (14 Dec 2013 17:18:02 GMT) :
> Alan wrote (14 Dec 2013 13:01:38 GMT) :
>>> > 2. No feedback while looking for upgrade.
>>> > When the menu launcher is first started it takes several seconds
>>> > before having any visual feedback. This can be really confusing.
>>> > How hard would it be to display a spinner or something? That looks
>>> > pretty important to me.
>>>
>>> I have no idea how to plug with GNOME's "application is starting"
>>> mechanism, but I can have a look and evaluate how painful it is.


>> In the .desktop, you had


>>     StartupNotify=false


>> Just set this to true and you're done.


> Thanks, I'll try this (#6495).


> Note that the .desktop starts a shell wrapper that itself starts the
> actual Perl app after (quicly) doing some checks. What takes time is
> the Perl app startup. I'm not sure if StartupNotify=true will be
> enough to display a spinner during the Perl application startup.
> We'll see.


> In any case, I don't see why this is so important, but I see why you
> folks don't share this feeling, as you're missing some background info
> that didn't make it out of my mind to a public document yet: this
> launcher was only added to make testers' life easier, until
> incremental upgrades are enabled by default. Then, my plan is to
> remove it.


> Fair enough?


Anyway, this was fixed with commit 5972e6.