Useless progress bar with cryptic text
Bug #666454 reported by
Chow Loong Jin
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| computer-janitor (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: computer-janitor
After clicking "Do selected tasks", Computer Janitor grays out and pulses the progress bar from left to right continuously for a good portion of the next hour or so while waiting for dpkg to do its thing. Meanwhile, the text says "Processing DebPlugin". This is rather cryptic, and, to put bluntly, useless.
The progress bar should instead move from left to right gradually, reflecting the removal of the packages as per Synaptic's progress bar. The text on the progress bar should at least reflect the current package dpkg is working on, as well as a package count, e.g. 5 packages out of 20 remaining.
Revision history for this message
| Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in computer-janitor (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
To post a comment you must log in.
I agree that the progress bar kind of sucks as it is. The problem is that there's no way to predict the total amount of time or work that the clean up is going to take. So I don't know that there's anything reasonable we can actually do better. :(