Make information clearer before upgrading
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Before confirming my upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10, I get this information pop-up (see screenshot) :
"Do you want to start the upgrade ? xx installes packages are not maintained by Canonical anymore... blabla"
I am a simple user and I do not get what is important or not in this popup, as there is information everywhere :
- "xx installed packages are not maintained by Canonical anymore. You can always retrieve assistance from the community"
> This is not a positive sentence. As a simple user, I will ask myself : "so what ? should I upgrade or not ? is there a risk for me ?"
> we provide partial information,
- "xx packages will be installed, deleted or updated"
> Is a simple user really interested by this ? If he wants more information, he can expand the "details" where there is exactly the same info.
- "You have to download a total of 708 M"
> "M" or "Mo" ?
- "This dowload will take you 1 hour 29 minutes...."
> Maybe Ubuntu could test the user connection before showing any estimation.
I think this popup should be redesigned totally : "what important message do we want to communicate to the user ?"
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description: | updated |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
I agree that this is an issue. I had an acquaintance of mine, also quite new to linux, calling me asking if would loose some important software because Canonical was not maintaining it any more.