I just installed some updates with PackageKit in F15, and got the 'A restart is required' notification. This is currently a child dialog of the PackageKit window. When the notification popped up, *only* it was popped to the front - the PackageKit window remained hidden behind other apps. So the 'Restart is required' child window looked a bit odd, shorn from the context of its parent window. Is it supposed to work like this, or should the parent window also have been popped to the front?
(For true polish, I think it'd be nice if the 'restart is required' dialog were a Shell-y thing like the new PolicyKit authentication dialogs, but that's really just a side note).
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
On 21 March 2011 18:13, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's designed to auto-close when updates are done, although in this case the restart dialog seems bizarre indeed. Could you bugzilla it please, thanks.
Richard.
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:58 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 21 March 2011 18:13, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's designed to auto-close when updates are done
That seems like it should be revised for the 'restart is required' case, then. That dialog should never just disappear, until the user makes a choice.
, although in this case the restart dialog seems bizarre indeed. Could you bugzilla it please, thanks.
Sure, will do. I have a screenshot. :P
On 21 March 2011 19:08, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:58 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 21 March 2011 18:13, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's designed to auto-close when updates are done
That seems like it should be revised for the 'restart is required' case, then. That dialog should never just disappear, until the user makes a choice.
Agree.
Richard.
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:58 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 21 March 2011 18:13, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
It's designed to auto-close when updates are done, although in this case the restart dialog seems bizarre indeed. Could you bugzilla it please, thanks.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689563
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
I just installed some updates with PackageKit in F15, and got the 'A restart is required' notification. This is currently a child dialog of the PackageKit window. When the notification popped up, *only* it was popped to the front - the PackageKit window remained hidden behind other apps. So the 'Restart is required' child window looked a bit odd, shorn from the context of its parent window. Is it supposed to work like this, or should the parent window also have been popped to the front?
Mutter bug for attached dialogs not attaching because of stacking is:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632007
There was a patch in there, but it has various issues - and this points out an additional problem beyond what is noted there - if that patch was applied, the dialog would have been been popped up underneath, next to it's parent, but that would have happened after Mutter already decided that it didn't need to "focus stealing prevent" the dialog so you'd just have gotten no notification.
We need either to put the parent next to the dialog, which would cause everything to pop to the front. Or we need to focus stealing prevent the dialog - so you'd see "PackageKit is ready" in the notification area.
(For true polish, I think it'd be nice if the 'restart is required' dialog were a Shell-y thing like the new PolicyKit authentication dialogs, but that's really just a side note).
Also, the dialog and PackageKit itself seemed to just disappear after about 30 seconds or so, I don't have a crash report from abrt so I'm not sure what happened to it.
To me the right thing here would be a notification - we don't want to say "you can't do anything else until you restart", but rather "you urgently should restart".
- Owen
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