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.
