"Starting update manager" progress dialogue violates HIG

[Bruce Cowan]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I notice that the progress window which says "Starting update manager" when you start Update Manager has no window title. The GNOME HIG states [0] that progress windows need a title which is the same as the primary text, which in this case is "Starting update manager".

[0] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-progress.html

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

I will fix this in the next days.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is still an issue in Jaunty. BTW the window "Not all updates can be installed" don't have title either.

[to be removed (liw)]

Opening up the glade file (data/glade/UpdateManager.glade in the source tree) confirms that most of the dialogs are without window titles. It's too late for jaunty, but it'd be great if someone could go through them and add titles (either as a bzr branch, patch, or just adding them to this bug report), so they could added early in the karmic cycle.

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

This is still the case -- it's a few years late, but think you could fix it in Karmic? :)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Sorry, bad timming *again* - we are in string freeze, so adding the title at this point is not ideal :/

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

The GNOME HIG link is not valid anymore, and the sentence stating that the progress window title should be the same as the primary text was removed (http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.32/windows-progress.html.en), is this valid anymore? The description should be updated to better describe the action items.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Setting this to Invalid, as we don't have the Starting update manager dialog anymore, the progress bar has been integrated into the main window.
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