Gnome-app-install: User interface issues with post-install dialog.
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gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-app-install
After installing an application with gnome-app-install, a dialog appears saying "New application has been installed".
However, this dialog is flawed in two respects.
The dialog displays two options: To continue adding / removing applications, or to quit the program. However, the button to quit the program is improperly using the stock gtk-close label. In GNOME, Close is associated with closing a window or a document, whereas Quit is associated with actually quitting the application. As user may click that button expecting to close the dialog and return to the program, but actually quitting the program. The Close button should be replaced with the stock Quit widget.
Before the dialog appears, the program regenerates its package list (checking installed and available applications). In doing so, it wastes valuable time, since one of the options is to quit the program entirely. In fact, it is the more common action for one to quit the program after his selection of packages is installed!
To solve this, the dialog should appear immediately after the installer is finished; the package list should be refreshed only if the user chooses to continue using the program!
Okay, here is a patch using the original source files for gnome-app-install to change to the stock Quit button. Also added the stock Apply icon for "Apply Changes" in window_main, to solve a similar bug that I filed.
Sorry, the diff is pretty darn ugly.