Changes between Initial Version and Version 8 of Ticket #12041


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Timestamp:
Jul 17, 2017, 12:00:01 AM (7 years ago)
Author:
diver
Comment:

Recently, I've seen several videos (as well as some people on IRC/jabber) where someone tried to install Qt apps (QupZilla, SMPlayer) which in turn installed quite a few heavy dependencies. They were confused as HaikuDepot didn't show that something was being installed and assumed that it froze, closed Depot, reopened several times, rebooted. Needless to say that all in all they were quite disappointed in Haiku as a whole (as well as people who watched it) because "nothing is working and I can't even install anything" -- they used revision with many broken packages due to libpng16 update.

Here is one of the videos ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlnuzizaEbw, which I recommend everyone to watch to see what end users deal with.

I think this needs to be resolved before beta1 if we don't want to create bad impression.

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  • Ticket #12041

    • Property Milestone Unscheduled → R1/beta1

  • Ticket #12041 – Description

    initial v8  
    11When you download a package from HaikuDepot that needs to download additional dependencies the user is not given any indication on the progress of downloading the dependencies. It seems HaikuDepot only gives a progress indicator for the main package(s) that the user chose to download and not their dependencies.
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    3 I expected there to be a 'Download Status' tab in the lower-half of the HD window that would show such info.
     3I expected there to be a 'Download Status' tab in the lower-half of the HD window that would show such info. Bumping milestone.