Icon double-clicks and slow launches should be bufferred
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
This is similar to, but not the same as #28455
Because there can be a significant (1-3s) delay in launching the package manager after clicking the update-notifier icon, the icon should ignore subsequent clicks for a short period after launching. In this limbo period, users may click the icon again, mistakenly thinking it was mis-clicked. Other users accidentally or habitually double-click icons. Both of these situations result in a second update-manager instance with a big error message.
The soon-to-be-attached patch will refuse to execute update-manager more than once every 3 seconds. This doesn't solve the underlying issue of update-notifier being pretty much unaware of update-manager. In the future, we can mark the icon as "working" on first launch, or locate and activate an existing update-manager instance.
However, this patch is hopefully small and safe enough to improve the user experience in dapper.
Changed in update-notifier: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I'm not familiar with the proper procedure to patch a package, but this is a diff -U against what I got with an 'apt-get source update-notifier'